nental should have started with the 757-200s first with WI-FI. These aircraft are used on transatlantic flights such as Newark through Lisbon, Shann

Services also require individual regulatory approval from every country the aircraft flies over. In the US this is just one, but Europe has a lot of small countries!

I think Continental should have started with the 757-200s first with WI-FI. These aircraft are used on transatlantic flights such as Newark through Lisbon, Shannon, and London.

AirCell’s service is land-based, so it only works over the US.

Delta: DELTATRYGOGO
AirTran: AIRTRANTRYGOGO
American Airlines: AATRYGOGO

The 752s would have been better Continental!

I refuse to pay the $8 for live TV on Continental. I like Continental but they will not get that much out of me for TV.

It’s actually $6 for LiveTV in coach and free for first class.

one of the first sites I hit was the CNET Bandwidth test. Throughput was about 580 kbps — right between slow DSL and fast DSL.

Thats actually pretty slow DSL. I work in the DSL business and the slowest we sell anymore is about 1200 kbps. and we’ll go upto 15,000 kbps. That being said 580 kbps is definitely serviceable and well above modem speeds..

Looking at July 2010, CO is showing nothing but 737-800s on their flights to LAS from all three hubs.

Smelling a rat, I pulled all 757-300 flights in July, 2010, and found only five (whereas there were over 120 — some less than daily — in July 2009).

So, here’s my hypothesis: CO is putting most/many flights out there as “737-800″. Closer to the date, it will figure out whether it will actually run them as a 738, 739, 752 or 753.

Continental is also going to test LiveTV’s “free” Kiteline email service at the same time (on the 737-900ERs already equipped with LiveTV). A true test of Wi-Fi models.

Thanks, Mary. And for those readers who are interested, here is Mary’s piece:
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/12/16/336278/continentals-new-gogo-deal-to-help-carrier-define-future-wi-fi.html

David SFeastbay wrote:

Is it time for your readers in Florida to get on your case for calling them a ’swamp’…….lol

They can get on my case all they want – it is a swamp!