Articles tagged “wi-fi”

Faster Wi-Fi will make passengers of all ages happy, but it takes turning that connectivity into a facilitator for sharing via influential accounts to turn greater bandwidth in a grassroots social movement.

Airlines have no trouble getting passengers to use Wi-Fi -- when it's offered for free. The brand benefits would be enormous if JetBlue kept it that way. Other airlines should consider doing likewise.

With its emphasis on long-haul flights to Asia, and connections to the mainland U.S., it would be in Hawaiian Airlines' best interest to make installation of Wi-Fi a higher priority. The airline may be under-estimating the desire for Wi-Fi among its core leisure travelers.

Onboard Wi-Fi isn't as simple as slapping on an antennae and charging to access the Internet. Airlines will need to develop smart models that give something away in order to make money from services people (of all ages) don't mind paying for.

After initially lagging in Wi-Fi installation, United is smart to be transparent about its connectivity efforts and making it easy for flyers to know whether their plane will or will not connect in-flight.

Where once in-flight Wi-Fi was an insane perk that was hard to imagine (way back in 2008), it's now become so expected that both airlines and providers are in a race to provide the fastest -- if not the cheapest -- connection.

It is rare that CEOs of airlines talk about their digital efforts in so much granular detail at investor conferences, so it is informative to hear Anderson's words around mobile and in-flight wi-fi.

Gogo's partnership with Samsung is the kind that Wi-Fi providers cherish. There's no need to mail anything in, to present a coupon or enter a promotion code. Samsung tablet users just launch a browser and get directed right to a Gogo log-in page.

ViaSat claims it has the fastest in-flight Wi-Fi available and raising the standard for service in European skies will effectively force other carriers to speed up their service. The El Al deal is one way for ViaSat to kickstart market penetration outside of the U.S.