You can take that issue of SkyMall and choke yourself with it, because American Airlines flights are now a little more fun! TechCrunch reports AA is pushing its Gogo streaming video service to all 767s, offering 100 films and episodes. More »
Uh oh, our Jason Chen is going to be pissed when he sees this news. In-flight Wi-Fi’s set to get even slower, now that Gogo is giving away free Facebook access on seven of the major airlines. More »
They’re a little late to the party, but Continental will soon be offering wireless internet on some flights. More »
United Airlines is getting Wi-Fi…sort of. Only 13 Boeing 757s will receive Aircell’s popular Gogo service for coast-to-coast flights by November. The price will range from $US13 for laptops to $US8 for smartphones and other small Wi-Fi devices. [Chicago Tribune via CrunchGear]
As of right now, American Airlines has Gogo Wi-Fi on all of 15 planes. Today they’ve announced that 318 more planes will be getting this $US100,000 upgrade…but it will take a few years for the project to be complete. By the time it actually happens, I plan on having internet beamed straight to my soul. It’ll only be 6Mbps, but I’ll really feel the pain of all those cat memes. [LA Times]
I’m live from Virgin America’s Beta run of their Wi-Fi service, over San Francisco, and there are a few things you should know about how its going to work when most airlines go live in 2009. And yes, I am posting this live from 15k feet over the Pacific Ocean.
Jalopnik’s Road Test Editor Wes Siler is currently at 35,000 feet, flying American Airlines from LA to NY. Since his Boeing 767 had the recently launched Gogo in-flight Wi-Fi, and since he was already using it to get his work done, we decided to see how far the service could go in terms of in-flight comforts.
I was hoping that American Airlines would stand up against religious groups’ stupid demands, keeping their in-flight online service completely un-filtered. After all, they had great arguments: filtering porn sites will jeopardise the access to legitimate web sites, hindering the usability of their aeroplane wireless network. Not to mention the fact that people wanting to look at naughty bits in airplanes can always watch the porn stored in their computers, mobile phones, and personal multimedia players. The network filtering is not going to change that. Sadly, they now have changed their tune:
Where the open internet goes, porn follows; however, this golden rule is being re-evaluated for the friendly skies by Delta, who plans to filter web sites used on their implementation of Aircell’s Gogo in-flight Wi-Fi service. While most of the early adopters of in-flight Wi-Fi have said they will only filter certain types of traffic and not web content itself, relying on flight attendants to handle case-by-case complaints of passengers attempting to join the solo mile high club right from their seat. Which they obviously weren’t too happy about.
