Thank God! After years of sitting here, reading about airline after airline in the US launch in-flight Wi-Fi and longing for some local airline to bring the love to Australia, Singapore Airlines has announced this week that they’ll have in-flight internet access on selected flights starting next year. More »
Southwest this week began testing their own in-flight Wi-Fi service, based on a satellite connection from Row 44. It’s on one plane now with more coming soon, and right now, it’s free.
Singapore Airlines must have had a fair bit of success when they rolled out iPod connectivity for business customers on their A340-500 aircraft last year, because they’re new Airbus A330-300 aircraft have an iPod dock for every passenger, including those bums back in economy. That means you can not only listen to your own music, but watch any videos stored on your iPod or iPhone on the big screen as well… More »
Watching a movie on a media player during a flight takes skill: You want it propped up but you don’t want to touch it. iFlyz removes the joy challenge from this delicate dance.
United has announced more details regarding their long-planned inflight internet services. Coming in the second half of this year, Wi-Fi will cost customers $US13 per flight.
Hey dufus, put your hands down. Why are you celebrating all of this aeroplane Wi-Fi internet access? Oh, right. Now I remember. You’re my boss. And now I must do your bidding from anywhere in the world at any time. Thanks a lot, airlines! I’ll never be able to dodge work again.
The Airbus A380 has been flying in and out of Australia for over 12 months now courtesy of Singapore Airlines, but for those of you with a preference for flying Qantas, their first A380 has been flying for a couple of months. Lifehacker Editor and perennial traveller Angus just happened to get a seat on one of the new monstrously large planes on a recent trip to the US, and has reviewed the in-flight entertainment experience in his Road Worrier column. More »
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.
Early last week a Qantas Airlines Airbus A330 surprised (and injured) its passengers with an inexplicable 300ft climb, followed by an even larger drop. Initial reports seemed to place blame on interference from personal electronics — something that Qantas had claimed before. After the news made the rounds the situation became muddied, with Qantas claiming that the initial news reporting misrepresented their claims and reporters backing away from the story. In any case, rest easy, Australian in-flight gadgeteers — it wasn’t your fault.
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:
