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Old Mar 12, 2015 | 3:32 pm
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Originally Posted by Often1
There are far easier ways to defraud a vendor. I don't think that the fraud risk inflight is particularly significant. Certainly not worth the costs associated with real-time links. That may change.
Wi-Fi is already extremely common on domestic flights (at least in the US) and becoming more common for international flights. It really doesn't add that much more cost to buy the equipment that can do real-time authorization.
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