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Airlines With the Best In-Flight Wi-Fi (latimes.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Los Angeles Times: In the heated competition between airlines in the U.S., JetBlue Airways offers an extra perk that is pretty alluring to most travelers: Free, high-speed wireless internet. For that reason, an internet comparison site named JetBlue as the top domestic airline for overall WiFi service, followed by rivals Southwest Airlines, Delta Air Lines and Virgin America. The ranking by Highspeedinternet.com considered not only the speed of the connection but the cost and the availability on every plane. JetBlue won the top spot because the New York-based carrier offers free WiFi with speeds of 15 megabits per second on 78% of its fleet, according to the ranking. Southwest Airlines ranked second because it offers WiFi at speeds of up to 10 Mbps for $8 per flight on 90% of its fleet.
If you want to be assured to have WiFi on your next flight, Virgin America is the only domestic carrier that offers internet connections on 100% of its fleet, for a price of up to $25, depending on the length of the flight. Virgin America's WiFi speed is 15 Mbps, which is considered fast enough to stream movies and television shows. Don't care about connecting to the internet? Frontier, Hawaiian and Spirit Airways are the only three major U.S. carriers that offer no onboard WiFi at all, according to the ranking.
If you want to be assured to have WiFi on your next flight, Virgin America is the only domestic carrier that offers internet connections on 100% of its fleet, for a price of up to $25, depending on the length of the flight. Virgin America's WiFi speed is 15 Mbps, which is considered fast enough to stream movies and television shows. Don't care about connecting to the internet? Frontier, Hawaiian and Spirit Airways are the only three major U.S. carriers that offer no onboard WiFi at all, according to the ranking.
That the damn kid hitting the back of my seat can can do hour-long Skype/Whatsapp yelling sessions with his friends, while his dad is busy watching porn and mom pinteresting, 'alluring' doesn't quite describe it for me.
I'd prefer free Ketamine, if not for them, then for me, PLEASE!
If horses can endure castration with it, then it must be good for a flight in economy as well.
And as a bonus you get memory loss of the flight.
Ah, I'm still on Slashdot. Thought I'd gotten shuffled over to Buzzfeed for a bit there.
OP is a faggot and faggots are gay as fuck.
the dead-tree kind. or just kick back, look out the window and daydream. we don't need to be part of the Borg 24/7/365.
Do our neighbors to the north (read Canadians), have anything comparable?
I doubt!!
There you have it folks, if you don't want to be cooked, fly with Frontier, Hawaiian and Spirit Airways.
Nice ad.
Requiem for the American Dream
on my flights?
TO THE MOON
for a price of up to $25
Unless your company is paying, I would have to say that spending that amount simply to have a few hours of internet looks more like a personality problem than a "must have".
If you can't go that length of time without an internet fix, there is something seriously wrong.
Personally I would give up ALL in-flight internet for an extra inch of leg room.
politicians are like babies' nappies: they should both be changed regularly and for the same reasons
I fly on different airlines all the time and JetBlue is by far my favorite to fly on. The WiFi is 100% free for everyone and it's fast (satellite based). Plus, I love the free satellite TV so I can watch the news or any cable channel I care about (e.g. History channel). The TVs are built into every seat so you don't have to trade between work and watching something, or draining batteries. I think they have the most legroom of any airline too.
I laugh at everyone else's offerings. Everyone else charges $$$.
How about this perk: wifi and guaranteed flight without dogs in the cabin?
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I know for a fact that United has WiFi on 100% of its domestic and international flights, so I don't see how Virgin could possibly the only airline to offer that domestically. Now, unfortunately, United uses satellite internet, which can be a bit slow. It's also pretty expensive. But, for instance, if you fly from the US to China, you have internet from basically wheels up (10,000 ft) until you hit Chinese airspace. And that's only because the Chinese do not allow them to offer inflight WiFi over their airspace. As far as I know, their WiFi coverage spans the entire northern hemisphere. I haven't traveled to the Southern Hemisphere on United, however.
My son used FlightAware to track our plane, I tracked a few drinks knowing where we were going and the rental car and hotel bills were already paid. Texas is a good place to visit. See the Alamo, shop at San Antonio Riverwalk.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Just curious...how does a plane have access to a fast broadband connection? Let say 15 mbps per user on a Boeing 747 (366 capacity) yield over 5.5 gigabit wireless link!
Second article today where slashdot ignorantly refers to something as free when itâ(TM)s just bundled into the price you are paying. Stop it.
They all use the same vendor and equipment!
And you complain about Chinese peoples CO2 pollution.
My recent vacation I took SouthWest. Their shit tried to usurp my browser almost instantly and all I was doing was checking the flight status.
The security on their wi-fi is incredibly weak. Don't trust their wi-fi.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.