{"id":129948,"date":"2009-12-21T08:13:49","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T13:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.feld.com\/wp\/archives\/2009\/12\/wi-fi-on-airplanes-finally-coming.html"},"modified":"2009-12-21T08:13:49","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T13:13:49","slug":"wi-fi-on-airplanes-finally-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/129948","title":{"rendered":"Wi-Fi on Airplanes Finally Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I\u2019m not on an airplane again until 2010 (1\/6\/10 to be exact when I head to Las Vegas for CES) which is a relief since I flew 87 segments 2009.  Ok \u2013 not as much as Ryan Bingham in Up in the Air<\/a> (very good BTW) but enough to decide to boycott United whenever possible.<\/p>\n

One pleasant surprise on a flight from DEN to OAK on SWA was the presence of Wi-Fi.  I paid my $12 and worked online for two hours instead of using my airplane sleeping superpower<\/a>.  Little did I know that I was on one of the four planes in the SWA fleet of 500 that had Wi-Fi according to the Gizmodo Complete Inflight Wi-Fi Cheat Sheet<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

I think 2010 is the year that Wi-Fi will finally roll out across the domestic airline fleet.  It\u2019s been in the works since 2000 and I remembered waiting, and waiting, and waiting for Connexion to roll out<\/a>.  And then forgetting about it.  Until sometime earlier this year when Virgin America started offering in-flight Wi-Fi and quickly became my (and many of my friends) method of transport between the east coast and the west coast.  Todd Dagres<\/a> from Spark Capital nailed it when he tweeted (presumably from an airplane) \u201cTrue fact \u2013 planes with WiFi travel 2x faster than planes without<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

There is something magical about sitting on a seat in a giant metal tube that is flying 30,000 feet above the earth and playing FarmVille<\/a>.  It finally feels like this is going to happen in 2010.  Hopefully there will be a lot more FarmVille than Skype on airplanes, although if everyone on the plane is on Skype at the same time it probably won\u2019t bother anyone \u2013 too much.  <\/p>\n

If you are traveling on a flight using Gogo Inflight Internet, My Money Blog has published a set of promotional codes that will give you free Wi-Fi through 1\/7\/10<\/a>.  Oh \u2013 and join the Gizmodo Mile High Club<\/a> while you are at it.<\/p>\n

And one final question \u2013 is it \u201cWi-Fi\u201d or \u201cWiFi\u201d?  That\u2019ll keep the airline marketing weenies busy for a while trying to figure out the right answer.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m not on an airplane again until 2010 (1\/6\/10 to be exact when I head to Las Vegas for CES) which is a relief since I flew 87 segments 2009.  Ok \u2013 not as much as Ryan Bingham in Up in the Air (very good BTW) but enough to decide to boycott United whenever possible. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}