Inflight entertainment just got better.
| August 16th, 2009Ok, so as most of you know, I’m traveling between Atlanta and San Diego for work. I primarily fly Delta Airlines, as they’re home based in Atlanta, and I do like the benefits of being a Medallion member.
Since April, when I started my current position, I have been hearing about the inflight wireless services coming to the Delta aircraft fleet. I have patiently waited for this day to arrive. I’m now over 1/3 way through my flight, flying over Dallas TX, at 36,000ft at 525mph over ground, and writing a blog post.
I’m humbled, amazed, excited, and my inner geek is musing. I think back to the days when we booted our TRS-80 model-1 from cassette tape, with a whopping 128kbytes of RAM, and no hard drives. I never thought there would be a day when I would be posting an update to a web of inter-connected systems that spanned the globe.
I’m happy that my current wireless connection is free, since I received a free trial pass from the gate agent, however, I’m not sure that the $12.95 that they want to charge is going to be useful with shorter flights, but I will purchase it for these 4 hour plus flights.
If you have a chance to use it, please, try it, and if you can get a free trial, definitely use it.
I’ll see you on the ground….
