Virgin America First Airline to Offer Wi-Fi in All Flights
Posted 05/21/09 at 04:29:06 PM by Andy Salisbury
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While AirTran claimed that they would be the first to implement Wi-Fi on all of their flights, Virgin America just beat them to the punch.
Yesterday Virgin officially announced that they would feature Wi-Fi on all 100 of their daily flights. Costs clock in at $12.95 for three hours and over, $9.95 for less than three hours, $5.95 for red-eye flights, and $7.95 if you just want to use a handheld device (such as a cell phone or a DSi).
Sure, the prices might seem a little beefy, but when I’m given the mental option between watching the inevitably bad movie that’s playing on the screen in front of me, or surfing the net on my own accord, I’ll opt towards the latter every time.
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Looks like I'll be
Submitted by linux_dork on Tue, 05/26/2009 - 8:59am
Looks like I'll be requesting Virgin when we fly out to Vegas for the trade show this summer.
Canada
Submitted by Caboose on Fri, 05/22/2009 - 2:05pm
I can't wait until companies like Westjet and Air Canada start doing this, it'll make all of those really long flights much easier!
-= I don't want to be dead, I want to be alive! Or... a cowboy! =-
I was on a cross country
Submitted by jcollins on Fri, 05/22/2009 - 5:50am
I was on a cross country flight on Virgin America recently (so more than 5 hours). The WiFi was fairly quick for browsing, YouTube, and IM. But I don't know how many other people were using it on the plane. I imagine it could be saturated if everyone was using it.
In terms of entertainment on the plane, there were no free movies. They were all 8 bucks each. So a few bucks more to feed the internet addiction vs a 2 hour movie for 8 bucks. I thought it was worthwhile. You could watch the DirectTV feeds for regular TV shows for free, but it really depends on if anything was on at the time you were flying.
Submitted by KaylaKaze on Thu, 05/21/2009 - 10:25pm
It's hard to think of $13 being a beefy charge when the airlines are already screwing you out of so much more.
Submitted by jpbeme on Thu, 05/21/2009 - 10:05pm
Not all that big of a deal when you compare them to all the other airlines installing wifi on their aircraft. Virgin is a small player with only 30 planes. So, of course it's going to take other airlines like Southwest and Alaska a little longer. From what I have seen, the technology Virgin is using is inferior.
Do they have a ban on VOIP
Submitted by swivvle on Thu, 05/21/2009 - 4:49pm
Do they have a ban on VOIP usage? I hope so!
Imagine somebody sitting next to you on a 10 hour flight yapping away on skype.
Submitted by Pylon on Thu, 05/21/2009 - 3:49pm
Nah, a window and a view is all I need for my in flight entertainment.
Submitted by jcollins on Fri, 05/22/2009 - 6:56pm
Yeah, and what you get is a solid layer of clouds and a fat guy taking up the two seats next to you...
Submitted by Pylon on Sat, 05/23/2009 - 3:08pm
Who said solid sheets of clouds are boring?http://www.flickr.com/photos/29374594@N00/3441906564/ And stuff like this:http://www.flickr.com/photos/romamar76/3450569241/
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