Travel Technology - Connexion By Boeing--anyone using

Has anyone tried Connexion on any of the airlines who are offering? Curious to get your feedback.

I'm sure others who view this board can also answer, but since LH is the only airline who is operating it on a reasonably large scale, you might get a much better response if you posted it on the LH board. The specific brand that LH is using for this service is FlyNet.

I have used it twice on the MUC-NRT-MUC run and it works fine. Easy to use and good throughput. If you want to know anything else, mail me.

Snoopy

I did this a while ago on the business run EWR to DUS.

It worked fine, I had a free promo so it didn't cost anything, I think the cost was going to be 35$.
I had pretty good throughput, but had some trouble getting to some sites, like WSJ, and my bank.

I had to run through a server in the US, and run a remote connection session from the plane, and open a browser on the remote server and get to mail that way.

but HECK, that was pretty SWEET from a plane.

i am in a lufthansa airplane right now, with conexxion. is so great.

skype and sip are working great! so with a pda with wireless lan, it is possible to get phone calls on your pda with sip or skype.

sent one fax and mails, everything working fine.

cost about 30usd for 12 hours.

I'll probably be retired before oneworld planes get it.

While the idea is fantastic I think Boeing has blown it in terms of marketing it during tough times in the airline business. They should have provided it for free and taken a much larger cut of the revenue pie.

I'll probably be retired before oneworld planes get it.

While the idea is fantastic I think Boeing has blown it in terms of marketing it during tough times in the airline business. They should have provided it for free and taken a much larger cut of the revenue pie.
My guess is that they really don't actually need to push the product very hard at all - a significant portion of business travellers (and a good portion of leisure travellers) will jump at the opportunity to use the internet on the long flight. Sure, emails can be written offline - but why stick to email and wait till the end of the flight when you can be right "in the action" using IM and responding to emails right away as though you are in your office?

I, for one, would love to pass the time that way (as a leisure traveller) - even with SQ's hundreds of movies and CDs, there's still a limit on how long you can concentrate on a small screen to watch films for so long.

But whether I want to overhear saccharine conversations of seatmates with their girlfriends and boyfriends over skype for the whole flight... I don't know. :) :p

I wonder if there would be a differance in adoption based on the direction of travel.

For example: When I was going overseas every week, I would stay in the lounge and have diner and do all my email BEFORE getting on the plane.

Then, when on the plane EAST bound to Europe I would always drink two scotches and go right to sleep.

Once I woke up, we were in Germany, or Paris or London, whereever. Getting out, hit the lounge, upload/download and be on the way to work.

West Bound, I could use it, East bound, I would probably not