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United Finally Debuts Some Airplanes With In-Flight WiFi
They are a little tardy to the party, but when it comes to in-flight WiFi, better late than never. Last week United Airlines began WiFi service on flights between New York and California. If you’re a United regular out of O’Hare you might just have to rely on the WiFi within the terminal for now.
The plane that they’ve equipped is a Boeing 757, and they are hoping to have 13 of them ready to go for in-flight fun by the middle of November. That means you’ll be able to email back-and-forth with your ride home for Thanksgiving to say that you’ve been circling the airport for the last 30 minutes due to runway congestion. If your flight isn’t delayed, you can always get a head start on your online holiday shopping.
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Celebrate The Summer Of In-Flight WiFi With 50% Off Gogo
We make a huge deal out of in-flight WiFi, but it's kind of a crazy thing to be able to surf freely and chat with friends wirelessly while 35,000-feet above nowheresville. But just in case you still haven't been convinced that a few hours of internet access is worth spending yet more cash on your flight, the largest provider of in-flight WiFi, Gogo by Aircell, is offering a discount code good through the rest of the summer.
Jot it down now: 158FLF7365.
Type that in when you open your laptop in the clouds, and it'll get you 50% off the cost of the WiFi, which regularly starts at $5.95 and goes all the way up to $49.95 for 30 days. The code is valid until August 31, 2009, so anyone flying the following airlines soon has a little something extra to look forward to: Virgin America, Delta, United, American and AirTran.
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US Airways Announces They'll Have In-Flight WiFi In 2010
Today is a proud day for advocates of almighty in-flight WiFi, as a surprise dropped in our inbox this morning announcing that US Airways has signed up to equip its planes with Aircell's Gogo WiFi.
According to the press release. US Airways "has committed to install Gogo Inflight Internet service on its fleet of 50 A321 aircraft," and although we won't see working service onboard until early 2010, it's better late than never. And what's even better than finally have in-flight WiFi? Knowing for sure that your flight is equipped with it when booking your ticket.
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This Week In In-Flight WiFi: Twitter's Role and American's Free Deal
Compared to the ice age of in-flight Wifi—which was like, last year—this week has yielded a slew of positive updates on airlines' progression with outfitting their fleets and more. Before we hit the weekend and you jet away on your (hopefully) WiFi-equipped flight, let's round up the news on connectivity:
· AirTran kept their promise to outfit all of their planes with WiFi before the end of the summer, even if Virgin America beat them to it mid-way through May. To kick off fleet-wide service, they launched a series of "netiquette" videos, instructing you to not do such things as eBay auction off your seatmate's clothing or conduct business meetings with bagels in the lavatory (maybe without bagels?).
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The Scoop On WiFi In The Sky; Now With Canada
Our neighbors across the border are on their way to enjoying sweet, sweet in-flight WiFi. SkySurf Canada has been awarded a license to provide Internet access up there, as the Gogo of the north, if you will. Aircell is already looking to become friendly with them, but for now it appears as though things will be slow to start, although Air Canada does plan to offer WiFi connectivity later this year on flights from Toronto to Los Angeles.
Back at home, Delta is plugging along in equipping their planes with in-flight WiFi. They’ve made some good progress in recent weeks and have almost completed WiFi installation on 60% of their pre-merger domestic fleet. Installation on the airline’s first wide-body jet is set to take place on July 9, and the Boeing 767-300 will be testing things out on July 13. You’ll be happy to know they are hard at work on Northwest’s pre-merger fleet as final designs will be determined this month.
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AirTran Blows the Field Wide Open With Fleetwide In-Flight WiFi
Remember last month when AirTran launched their online comment box, asking for passenger submissions on what cool stuff the airline could do to win you over? Well, after more than 30,000 submissions and several weeks of anxious wait time, today the announcement came through: Fleetwide WiFi this summer!
Yes folks, this is the moment we've all been waiting for; airlines are in something of a race to equip themselves with the sweet, sweet internet and we're all set to reap the benefits. You may now access your approved electronic devices and conduct business as normal.
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Delta's Fleetwide In-Flight WiFi Keeps On Keeping On
Delta just made tech fiends like us very happy this month, when they announced that all 115 of their MD88 birds have been fully equipped with precious in-flight WiFi capabilities.
Delta had been starting off WiFi integration slowly, but once they got the hang of it, the airline started moving quickly with the installations; perhaps they actually read comment cards? Just look for the WiFi decal when you board the plane, and you can rest assured that life links like Twitter, Gmail, and Facebook will be just a touchpad click away, as soon as you reach cruising altitude..
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Delta Doing Its Best To Meet Summer WiFi Deadline
We've certainly not forgotten that Delta has promised us, well everyone, domestic fleetwide WiFi by the summer. So we have to ask, how are these plans coming along?
The Delta Blog is doing a great job of revealing which planes are enabled each week, as well as providing the tail numbers for the birds. Unlike Virgin America that has their own summer pledge, you really can’t determine if your plane will have WiFi or not before you get to the gate. Although, it’s definitely better than nothing.
If you just must have WiFi, your best bet it to book trips aboard one of their MD-88s, as 91 of these guys are packing Internet power.
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American Airlines Is Expanding Its WiFi Offerings
Passengers aboard American Airlines have been enjoying in-flight WiFi on transcontinental flights, but for short hops, there’s been no option. With only a few WiFi planes in the mix, it’s been difficult to score one of the magical airplanes. However, your odds of getting the WiFi option is about to increase greatly.
Apparently, American has enjoyed the additional revenue from wireless access, so they are expanding their current offerings across 300 of their planes. It looks like maybe they won't be our worst domestic airline for two years in a row.
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What's Going On With Air Canada's WiFi? Anything? Bueller?
Last fall we let you know about Air Canada, and their plans to offer in-flight WiFi. Well, that’s all we’ve heard since then, so we’re getting suspicious if this is actually going to happen. Maybe they were just jumping on the WiFi bandwagon, with hopes that things would magically work out in the end.
The only news coming out of our neighbor to the north deals with passenger numbers for February. We feel bad for you Air Canada, sorry about the 10%-ish drop in passenger loads, but we want to know more. How about a snazzy press release featuring the specific flights, destinations, and times that the new Aircell service will be offered?
For now we’ll just let you know that some jerks were shining lasers into the cockpit of an Air Canada jet this week. The pilots reported a green flashing light when they were trying to land in Toronto after taking off from San Francisco. We’re not going to suggest that the laser trouble-makers were making a statement about the airline’s WiFi promises, but we’re not going to completely deny it either. Seriously though, laser pointers and airliners do not mix, don’t be uncool—someone’s mom and dad are on that plane.
Any info about the pending WiFi Service aboard Air Canada? Let us know.
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Lawyers Threaten Delta's Plans To WiFi Its Planes
Unfortunately, it’s not all hugs and kisses in the land of in-flight WiFi. Delta, one of the leaders in domestic WiFi offerings so far, is in a little bit of hot water. Aircell and Delta are the subject of a lawsuit filed by Massachusetts based company Ambit. They claim that Delta yoinked their idea of using antennae to aid in personal computer communication in a location like an airplane, and that they already have a patent for this concept.
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How's the WiFi Going On Delta?
Last summer Delta got us all excited when they announced that they’d be getting into the In-Flight WiFi game. Many months later, the planes are flying and the reviews have begun to trickle in.
Things are moving slowly, but at least there’s some progress. However, things need to speed up if they want to hit their initial promise of more than 330 enabled planes by this summer.
