Originally Posted by
jaysona
This issue has been actively discussed (and still is) between TCCA, the FAA & EASA for several years - it is not going to change anytime soon. The amount of work & time needed to change & harmonize the laws between all the major regulatory authorities is just deemed not to be worth it at the moment. It took close to two years just to work on Chapter 18 for ICAO and it will take longer for the regulators to make laws based on Chapter 18.
All very true I'm sure. But it is interesting how the amount of work & time needed to change & harmonize the laws between all the major regulatory authorities for a profit-making service such as GoGo was magically justifiable and evidently quite wrokable as well. (And let's not forget that prior to GoGo there was Connexion from Boeing ...)