Comments on: Broadband Internet on Airplanes

By: Rune

Rune — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 20:35:29 +0000

They used to have it on trans-atlantic routes, but it was shut down last year, at december 31st 2006! Due to lack of customers! SAS and all other customers were left out in the dark, but the could keep the equipment, whitch was the porperty of CBB/Boeing! The only part of the deal between CBB and the airliners, was that the airliners would provide the aircraft, all other cost was held by CBB! I hope that SAS and the other airlines soon will come up with a new solution, as lufthansa is going to! http://www.lufthansa.com/online/portal/lh/dk/info_and_services/on_board?l=en&nodeid=1953237

By: Fredrik

Fredrik — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 09:51:31 +0000

I was sure they already offered it across the atlantic? At least SAS already has wifi. Works great

By: T Man

T Man — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 14:13:08 +0000

Skype and other services will be blocked.

By: Oliver Schmid

Oliver Schmid — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:47:51 +0000

AA has on most of its flights “cigarette lighter type” power outlets in every seat in business class and one in at least every other row in coach.
What’s next? Cell Phones will be allowed during flight. Can you imagine the noise level. Thank god for Bose Headsets.

By: Todd Vernon

Todd Vernon — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:36:08 +0000

UA Business has it.. Powerbook laptops (running vista of course) have a nifty little mag connect version you can get at the apple store. Used it going to paris and back.. Wifi would be killer…

By: Steve Bergstein

Steve Bergstein — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:58:48 +0000

Just because the feature is there doesn’t mean that you have to use it.

OTOH, it would be really, really great to have power for my laptop on the plane. I can usually find an outlet somewhere in most airports, though.

By: Garth Walker

Garth Walker — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:55:20 +0000

Woot! I always fly back and forth via Lufthansa, so I’ll be enjoying that next time I fly home to visit…

I was actually digging around for information about on-plane power supplies and found this site:

http://www.seatguru.com/

They have diagrams for the planes of every airline detailing which seats have what (including power supply) and it looks like most airlines already have it, but only in business class. It looks handy for picking a comfortable seat ahead of time as well, which is good for me since I’m 6’6″…

By: Martha

Martha — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:41:15 +0000

This is very cool – as long as they can keep cell phones off the planes!

By: proales

proales — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 09:52:43 +0000

Maybe they will take the crack dealer approach… give you the internet for free but charge for the power outlet.

By: Loren Castillo

Loren Castillo — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 06:01:58 +0000

I just read that the Virgin line of planes is coming to America as well and they will have Wifi and if your seat has is power enabled on the plane try this http://www.igo.com/product.asp?sku=3524657