Coming soon to a flight near you – Wifi on your plane. How do you feel about this? I have mixed feelings – I have had to fly quite a bit in the last month and every plane has offered Wifi. To be completely honest I did pay for it on 1 flight just to try it out. It was cool to be able to tweet from 30,000 feet and I took the customary picture from up in the clouds and posted it. Part of me did not want to be using the phone or computer while I was flying. See up until this year all of us were use-to the customary turn off your phones, laptops, etc before the flight takes off and only approved devices were allowed while flying. But now with the availability of Wifi on airplanes once you reach your cruising altitude it’s back to the computer. I think I kinda liked the days that the plane was the only place I could not use the internet because I couldn’t but now there is no reason not to keep working while you are in the air. Oh well those days are gone and the days of staying connected all day everyday are here – but I do like to disconnect from time to time so I think I will save my Wifi plane access for flights of 3 hours or longer. What are your thoughts? Have you used the Wifi?
Just in case you are due to fly soon and want to know more about some of the WiFi services here is some more information. Wi-Fi works with smartphones and other wireless handheld devices offered by all major U.S. providers. Platforms supported include: Blackberry®, Windows® Mobile, Apple®, and Nokia® (Symbian S60). Voice service is not supported. You pay $9.95 for flights of three hours or less, $12.95 for longer flights. Here is the pricing to one of the Wifi services available – Gogo inflight wifi pricing. So far the airlines that offer the service from Gogo under Aircell are Delta, American Airlines, United, Virgin America, Air tran and soon Air Canada.
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