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AirTran Brings Insanely Obnoxious Seat-Back Advertising To The US
Seat-back ads have finally arrived in the US, with low cost carrier AirTran being the first to embrace what is already beloved onboard European LCCs like Ryanair and EasyJet.
Soon, passengers on all AirTran flights will be confronted for the entire trip by a 2.5" by 9" poster, sitting a few feet from their eyes, trying to worm its way into their eyeballs. It will be present on all 138 jets, and the first advertiser is an odd one: Mother Nature Network, a "one-stop resource and an everyman's eco-guide" for environmental news, travel, lifestyle, etc. MNN will use the ads to publicize a 7-night cruise giveaway as well—how eco-friendly of them. Hmm...
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AirTran Paints Its Planes To Celebrate The Birds Of The NFL
Fans of the Baltimore Ravens and Atlanta Falcons now have an easy pick when it comes to choosing their favorite airline—it has to be AirTran. The airline that loves in-flight WiFi has just released a Boeing 717 dubbed Ravens One from the hangar, and the plane is ready to shuttle fans to away games around the country.
Just a couple weeks ago, the airline pulled the masking tape off another plane dedicated to the Atlanta Falcons. It’s fitting that AirTran has a thing for football teams named after birds. However, the airline is also planning to release a plane with an Indianapolis Colts livery in just a few weeks. From what we’ve seen of Peyton Manning’s acting skills in commercials, we have little doubt that he’ll be the featured pitchman for the Colts’ new plane.
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Southwest Intensifies Boston Turf War With JetBlue And AirTran
The outlook for the 2010 airline industry is unremittingly bleak, but you wouldn't know it from the way that Southwest is acting. The low cost carrier is adding 104 flights to its spring schedule. In the process they're turning the Boston turf war they started with JetBlue and AirTran into a full-blown bloodbath:
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Southwest Triggers Turf War And Lower Prices By Landing In Boston
Southwest began flying out of Boston-Logan last Sunday, a move that their CEO once declared would never ever happen. Nonetheless, we weren't particularly surprised: we flagged the expansion back in April when they announced their routes, and again a few weeks ago when AirTran gave them a "welcome to Boston" by announcing free WiFi for Boston flights.
What is much more interesting is what the move means for the LCC niche and the airline industry as a whole, two different markets that are increasingly difficult to untangle.
The Wall Street Journal just published a must-read article on the industry, taking Southwest's expansion as the centerpiece and moving on from there:
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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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Take That Southwest: AirTran To Offer Free WiFi From Boston in August
For those who haven’t been taking notes, Southwest Airlines is set to take off from Logan Airport in Boston starting halfway through August. Hopefully their low cost model will help lower flight prices out of Beantown; it has already brought some freebies to flyers thanks to a little friendly competition.
AirTran knows the stakes are high, so they are offering free WiFi aboard all their flights that travel between BOS and BWI—one of Southwest’s main routes. The free in-flight WiFi will be available for the whole month of August, in hopes that travelers will choose their WiFi planes over the other guys.
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AirTran Now Has Fleet-Wide WiFi But Watch Your Manners
Hurrah! AirTran has just completed WiFi installation in all of its planes, meaning whenever you fly on AirTran you will be able to connect to the internet via Gogo Inflight.
Pricing will be similar to other WiFi flights that use Gogo which means $9.95 for flights shorter than three hours, $12.95 for longer flights and $7.95 to connect with your mobile phone.
But don't sign on so fast. AirTran also wants passengers to behave themselves when using in-flight WiFi which is why they've introduced their Internetiquette tips. (Ugh.) AirTran will place a copy of Internetiquette: A Guide to Keeping Everyone In Line, While They're Online that AirTran in every seat pocket. You can also access these tips online (narrated by Peter Graves) on the AirTran website.
Some of the tips are funny, like don't surf and squat in the lavatory. Some are stupid like don't take picture of celebrities or "take their stuff and sell it at online auctions." And some are just whatever, like don't open up sensitive company emails on a plane. Uh...ok. Thanks?
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· WiFi Now OnBoard [AirTran]
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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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Mark On AirTran Gets His Own Plane After 30 Days Of Flying
In the beginning of June, we asked if you'd ever spend thirty days straight flying around on the same airlines, like comedian Mark Malkoff was doing with AirTran.
Well on June 30, Mark finally (shakily) stepped onto solid ground, and along with accepting the Guinness World Record for most flights within 30 days—he did 135—he was welcomed with his very own plane. Well, it's actually just some special livery applied to an Airtran Boeing 717, and despite the cornyness, we kind of wish that every WiFi-equipped plane sported a logo as big as this one.
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Summer Is Only Days Away, Is AirTran's WiFi Ready?
About a month ago, AirTran totally threw down a serious challenge to all other domestic carriers when they announced that all their planes were getting equipped with WiFi by this summer. Virgin America finished off their in-flight WiFi project soon after and stole AirTran’s thunder, but the ATL-based airline is still working hard to reach their goal.
If you’re familiar with a calendar, you’d know that the first day of summer is this upcoming Sunday. We haven’t heard that much from AirTran, so let’s just hope they’re almost done and are just waiting to surprise us when they are finished. They didn’t specify when this summer, so we’ll cut them some slack.
There doesn’t be to be too much of a buzz surrounding their service online. You’ll find much more information and first-hand reviews from flyers on Delta and Virgin America. However, buried in a press release about that guy who’s living on one of their planes, as of June 15 all of the airline’s 737 planes, about 50 of them, have been equipped with WiFi. That is pretty good, but they have a lot more Boeing 717s that need the WiFi love too. We'll keep an eye on them for you, and let you know when they're totally tech-friendly.
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·Half-Way Home: Mark Completes 15 Days on AirTran Airways Planes [AirTran]
·AirTran Blows the Field Wide Open With Fleetwide In-Flight WiFi [Jaunted]
·Airline News coverage [Jaunted]
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Would You Live Aboard AirTran Flights For One Month?
Our answer, simply put, is "hell no." But for the next month, comedian and Colbert Report employee Mark Malkoff is doing just that; he's sleeping and eating and breathing air travel 24/7 in order to conquer his own fear of flying.
Now that he's already up to day four of his travels, which has thus far taken him from New York-LaGuardia to Atlanta to San Francisco to Milwaukee and more on AirTran, he's taken to keeping up a dialogue with followers on Twitter. From his @mmalkoff account, we learn that not only had he had an opthamologist board a plane to fit him for contacts, but that he's doing this month without an ipod or any music with which to zone out.
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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.
