WiFi Mania

Ok, well not mania. Perhaps some rather mild excitement. Like when Starbucks rolls out yet another new coffee drink. Anyway, American is rolling out their new wireless broadband service for domestic flights. Well, only a few domestic flights. Actually, specifically only flights between JFK and LAX.

The service is free now but when it's rolled out to the rest of the Boeing 767-200 aircraft in the American fleet they'll start charging and it's not gonna be all that cheap. Around $13 for flights or more than 3 hours and $10 for shorter flights. I'm hard pressed to think any time when I've absolutely, positively had to go on-line while airborne rather than waiting till I got on the ground so I'm probably not going to spring for the service anytime soon. Of course I don't have any plans to travel between New York and LA in the near future so it's all pretty much moot. On the other hand there are times on flights across the water when I've wished I'd have been able to surf the web and catch up on news but so far no one's got anything going on the WiFi front on intercontinental flights. I know several airlines are looking into it so it will be interesting to see how the American tests work out.