Last week, there was news that American Airlines would offer its passengers Wi-Fi/Broadband services in 2008. (Though, it's still a pilot program.) With all the advances in technology, I feel this ought to have happened much earlier.
In any case, I am hopeful the technology will become prevalent soon and is quickly replicated by airlines in India. After all, a notebook without Internet is nothing more than a piece of furniture that is better left in the luggage cabin. Given the intense competition amongst airlines here and with each player trying to go one-up in in-flight entertainment services, this may not be too far-fetched.
Saturday, December 15, 2007
I wish... Airlines in India offer Wi-Fi/Broadband Internet access.
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Emirates has some flights in certain routes that offer wifi. It is certainly charged at 5$ I think per hr. Apart from this all their flights you can check your public email and send SMS's for a fee.
Hi Internetian, I shall look forward to flying by Emirates. Also, 5$ seems quite fair to me.
Not just Emirates. The estimate says that there are about 900+ aircrafts with wifi access :)
Nimish..you may have to fly in Dubai-Sydney , Dubai-New York or Dubai-London sectors to check out the service.
The pain is that its a $1 Million investment per aircraft :(
USD 1 million per aircreaft? That's huge. I am sure noone in China has gotten into this.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/12/21/wired.airlines/index.html
Relatively an old story in CNN about allowing Mobile phones in aircrafts. There is a mention about the cost of making an aircraft into a wifi aircraft. Boeing is one of the player :)
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