Wi-fi now available on 15 American Airlines planes

by PegNews wire

DFW INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT — American Airlines will start offering in-flight broadband Internet access Wednesday. The 767-200s in its fleet, 15 in all, will offer the service to passengers for $12.95. All domestic flights are expected to offer wi-fi by the middle of next year.

Tease photo by flickr user Alexander Muse; posted by ccuellar

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snowboard9, says:

It's about time! However, $12.95 (versus $9.95) for other carriers is a bit extreme.

I just hope that VOIP is not enabled. The last thing we need is people yapping with internet based voice services.

As a matter of fact, anything that perpetuates the generation of NOISE should not be allowed. Granted, the "live and let live" crowd may have a different opinion but let's not open THAT can of worms :-)

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David Gouldin, says:

The featured article is slim on details, but most of what I've read about in-flight wifi indicates some ports will be blocked and bandwidth throttled per mac address based on demand. So I doubt you'd be able to get a voip call through, and even if you could, I doubt you could get consistent bandwidth to successfully have a conversation.

But if they decide to ssh I'm not touching it with a 10 foot pole. Either way, it'll be security hole city.

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Billusa99, says:

Why does the Home Page lede state: "You can further annoy fellow passengers..."

I realize that PegNews specializes is snappy writing for Internet peeps, but how is that value judgment valid at all? There is no phone/Skype/audible chat enabled in any airlibes service -- not that you even mentioned it. So whay state "annoy" for a completely silent service?

How does your statement serve anything at all, except to misinform people about something you chose not to expound upon?

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jtmbls, says:

As long as we’re critiquing, could you please remove that picture of the prime rib? It’s making me soooo hungry. I know…relevance…

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Scott Doyle, says:

While I don't share Billy's passion over this, I gotta say that I'd sooner have peeps messing around on their computer than making small talk with me.

Guess I'm just not a very cordial single-serving friend.