Internet on planes

[lippy]

I can imagine durrr making 30x the cost of his first-class ticket on a transcontinental flight. This would be very, very BBV worthy.

[SlowHabit]

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I can imagine durrr making 30x the cost of his first-class ticket on a transcontinental flight. This would be very, very BBV worthy.

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Or a very expensive flight.

Still BBV worthy though [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

[Freakin]

I've heard USAir has plans closing completion to roll this out on US domestic flights.

[cbloom]

Geez people, the cell phone thing is because THEY DONT WANT PEOPLE TALKING ON CELL PHONES. How is this not common knowledge? The interference thing is totally made up. It's so to prevent "air rage" and make it so you can hear the flight attendants.

[JordanIB]

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Geez people, the cell phone thing is because THEY DONT WANT PEOPLE TALKING ON CELL PHONES. How is this not common knowledge? The interference thing is totally made up. It's so to prevent "air rage" and make it so you can hear the flight attendants.

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I had read that it was so that they make $$$ by forcing people to use the in-plane phones.

Of course, who uses those anyway?

[amulet]

lufthansa is the only airline i have flown that offers internet. and i fly a lot internationally.

as for your london question, i have an office there and the other major airlines that service that market don't currently offer internet service.

[PITTM]

if they let people talk on cell phones inflight i would be on the worst tilt ever every flight i take.

[Jurollo]

Wouldn't it be fairly easy for a company such as JetBlue to incorporate something along these lines as they are already linked up with DirecTV and could simply link it up with them and provide satellite broadband? It would be a fairly large competitive advantage IMO and would likely force their competition to spend clumps of money to catch up.
~J

[RoundTower]

I was on a LAN flight recently with some friends (a Boeing 737 I think). My friend told me his neighbour in economy class was using the internet during the flight.

[Duke]

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if they let people talk on cell phones inflight i would be on the worst tilt ever every flight i take.

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Why? At least that way you only have to hear one end of retarded conversations.