Originally Posted by bduperrin

I was on the AF flight like Olivedel. After some hiccups at the very beginning of the flight (due to the telco, not to the system itself according to the Panasonic guys who where monitoring it) everything went fine after lunch and we were able to comfortably surf and work for the remaining 6 hours.

We only lost the connection twice but was normal. Each time the system had to switch to another satellite there's a one minute black out but you don't have to re-log once the connection is back.

FYI on a CDG-JFK or even CDG-LAX trip, 3 satellites are used. The first over Europe, another over the ocean (90% of the trip) and the last one over the US. We were told that the KL flight to Panama was supposed to use 4 satellites and a CDG-SIN, for example, 4 or 5.