Passenger gets $1200 wi-fi bill on flight.

BEEF SUPREME said:
We have satellite internet on the Falcon 900 and no one is allowed to use it. Yeah it is a 3 engine private jet, burning about 300 gallons of Jet A every hour that costs of 3000 bucks an hour to run.

BUT DON'T USE THE SATELLITE INTERNET BECAUSE IT COSTS SO MUCH!
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That sounds like a business expense tax deduction that the rich bastards could be taking advantage of.
 
Dugie8 said:
Damn. We have the same in the challenger and we use it constantly. Un limited plan.
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We have Aircell or now called Gogo Biz as well. It runs on an unlimited plan, for now. In 2016 the plans all change to a more expensive plan systemwide.

Of course that is a ground based system and the satellite system is totally different.
 
Roger Roger said:
That sounds like a business expense tax deduction that the rich bastards could be taking advantage of.
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Yeah. I don't know. I've gotten back to no opening the iPad unless I need to see a chart. I don't use wifi at all anymore. Its over 2k a month for unlimited Aircell or Gogo Biz. I haven't seen the Satellite based internet billing stuff. I imagine it is super expensive even if one does not use it.

Personally I would be happy being unreachable for a few hours if I were a busy rich guy but that is just me...
 
BEEF SUPREME said:
Yeah. I don't know. I've gotten back to no opening the iPad unless I need to see a chart. I don't use wifi at all anymore. Its over 2k a month for unlimited Aircell or Gogo Biz. I haven't seen the Satellite based internet billing stuff. I imagine it is super expensive even if one does not use it.

Personally I would be happy being unreachable for a few hours if I were a busy rich guy but that is just me...
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$30,000 a month is not unusual for the satellite based system installed on the Falcon 900. Satellite based wifi is not cheap, that's why most airplanes have a ground based system like Gogo in addition to the satellite based system.

Alex.
 
BEEF SUPREME said:
Yeah. I don't know. I've gotten back to no opening the iPad unless I need to see a chart. I don't use wifi at all anymore. Its over 2k a month for unlimited Aircell or Gogo Biz. I haven't seen the Satellite based internet billing stuff. I imagine it is super expensive even if one does not use it.

Personally I would be happy being unreachable for a few hours if I were a busy rich guy but that is just me...
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I would love to have wifi in flight, so I could stop bugging Mexican ATC for the weather at my destination...
 
dasleben said:
Nah, if UAL can charge $10 for unlimited wifi NRT-SFO, Singapore doesn't justify a $1200 bill.
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That's a pretty fair price. Actually I'd call that low. I remember being floored that it was $30 for unlimited between JFK and NRT on JAL. For 14 hours, that's pretty incredible. Long haul flights are where you really need the wifi. Thanks to you fine folks, I can keep myself entertained on the internet basically indefinitely. TV and Movies...meh.
 
BEEF SUPREME said:
We have Aircell or now called Gogo Biz as well. It runs on an unlimited plan, for now. In 2016 the plans all change to a more expensive plan systemwide.

Of course that is a ground based system and the satellite system is totally different.
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Just curious, if it's unlimited for another year or so why not use it? You guys are paying for unlimited right?
 
Screaming_Emu said:
That's a pretty fair price. Actually I'd call that low. I remember being floored that it was $30 for unlimited between JFK and NRT on JAL. For 14 hours, that's pretty incredible. Long haul flights are where you really need the wifi. Thanks to you fine folks, I can keep myself entertained on the internet basically indefinitely. TV and Movies...meh.
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It was probably more than that, but yeah, it was the first time I'd seen inflight wifi on an oceanic flight. It was awesome.
 
PositionAndHold said:
I meant using for like inflight WX and such. Not checking out JC to see what airplanes Delta has ordered. :)
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Yeah I gotcha. It's just that most of my iMessages, cool mountain bike movies, cool mountain bike photos, the mountain biking Facebook pages I run, Facebook messages and alerts, surf reports, emails and of course fapping over the latest Delta news. It's all jumping out of my iPad whenever I switch out of Jepp FD.

It's like crack. So I just get the WX via AFIS or just trust the forecast and look out the dang window. I'm a better pilot for it.

YOU MUST HAVE DISIPRIN!
 
Vector4Food said:
Charging $1 for a MB of bandwidth is absolute robbery.

Yes he knew up front, but that's just idiotic.

Don't go spouting a bunch of BS about how "Well he's in a magical tube hurtling through space time"

I don't care, that's about a 5000% mark-up on the actual cost.


Note, I made that number up, but I'm probably not far off the mark.
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Data is $5.12/mb when roaming in Mexico. Crazy.
 
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