{"id":259291,"date":"2010-02-01T08:30:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T13:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10001382"},"modified":"2010-01-31T22:20:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T03:20:45","slug":"wifi-taking-flight-at-southwest-later-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/259291","title":{"rendered":"WiFi Taking Flight At Southwest Later This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/01\/southwest-thumb-158x144-36547.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>Southwest Airlines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/business\/chi-biz-southwest-wifi-jan29,0,2177972.story\">plans to add WiFi<\/a> in the second quarter of this year, the Chicago Tribune reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Southwest will install equipment on about 15 aircraft per month initially and gradually increase that rate to 25 planes per month. It estimates that Wi-Fi will be available on the more than 540 planes in its fleet by early 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn little more than two years, Internet service has become widely available on flights within the U.S. Itasca-based Aircell, the leading Wi-Fi provider, has installed its Gogo service on about 700 jetliners and earlier this month raised $176 million to further fuel its growth.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Pricing info hasn&#8217;t been released. How much would you be willing to play to websurf on a long flight?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/business\/chi-biz-southwest-wifi-jan29,0,2177972.story\">Southwest to install Wi-Fi on planes<\/a> [Chicago Tribune] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southwest Airlines plans to add WiFi in the second quarter of this year, the Chicago Tribune reports: Southwest will install equipment on about 15 aircraft per month initially and gradually increase that rate to 25 planes per month. It estimates that Wi-Fi will be available on the more than 540 planes in its fleet by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4514,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259291","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\/4514"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}