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AC, where's your TPAC wifi service?

Old May 22, 2013, 5:59 pm
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Old May 22, 2013, 6:17 pm
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Cool. I have a TATL flight on UA metal coming up. Hope they have it on that flight too!
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Old May 22, 2013, 6:44 pm
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Originally Posted by john_doe123123
UA charges $23 for the entire duration of the 10 hr flight. A steal of a deal IMO.

Again, AC is late to the game...
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Old May 22, 2013, 6:54 pm
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UA has very few planes with wifi -- currently only 3 747s and 30 A319/A320.

http://www.united.com/web/en-US/cont...i/default.aspx

The reason why the 747s are the first UA widebodies to get wifi is because they don't have AVOD in economy, just communal screens with a single movie playing. (Business and First have AVOD).

So I wouldn't say that UA is that much ahead of AC.
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Old May 22, 2013, 7:05 pm
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Old May 22, 2013, 8:23 pm
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Originally Posted by CP@YOW
UA has very few planes with wifi -- currently only 3 747s and 30 A319/A320.

http://www.united.com/web/en-US/cont...i/default.aspx

The reason why the 747s are the first UA widebodies to get wifi is because they don't have AVOD in economy, just communal screens with a single movie playing. (Business and First have AVOD).

So I wouldn't say that UA is that much ahead of AC.
Hmm, 33-0. Not that much ahead at all.
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Old May 23, 2013, 8:35 am
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Originally Posted by CP@YOW
UA has very few planes with wifi -- currently only 3 747s and 30 A319/A320.

http://www.united.com/web/en-US/cont...i/default.aspx
Obviously UA has a long way to go here.

But it is nice to see an airline that's transparent about where things are at.
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Old May 23, 2013, 8:39 am
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Originally Posted by john_doe123123

Again, AC is late to the game...
Late in the game for what? AC was well ahead of the pack in installing PTV's ahead of most of its North American competitors. I'm an admitted techno-idiot, but isn't part of the hold up over a lack of licensing and ground relay set ups over Canada? I believe it's in the works and on the way.

It seems to be a very touchy technology. Just flew FRA/YYZ on LH and WiFi plaques adorned the aircraft. No service the entire flight.

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Old May 23, 2013, 2:33 pm
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Had it free on TK (YYZ-IST) a couple of weeks go, but never had it work on LH equipped planes. Use it all the time on AA domestic flights (though had a dozen free use vouchers) but there's no infrastructure here in Canada because the market is too sparse, and the technology is moving from land based relay to satellite based systems. AC had it on some LAX flights (since they fly over the US for most of the flight) but the take up rate was minimal. So AC is no further behind than most overseas carriers who have been waiting for a provable technology (Boeing offered a version five years ago that flopped because there was not enough demand, and there were technical problems) which appears now to have arrived.

The next generation of IFE is going to include internal wifi that will feed entertainment and web access to everyone with their own tablet, laptop or smart phone. This will be cheaper and lighter weight than the wired IFE we know today.
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Old May 23, 2013, 2:44 pm
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Originally Posted by ACYYZ/SD
AC was well ahead of the pack in installing PTV's ahead of most of its North American competitors.
And Henry Ford was ahead in building affordable cars.... how is this past 'achievement' relevant to an AC being behind the times TODAY?

oh.. and online seat selection... coming soon
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Old May 23, 2013, 9:11 pm
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Originally Posted by mendy7511
Hmm, 33-0. Not that much ahead at all.
Not 0, Air Canada has wifi on like ... 2 planes.

Frankly I don't think AC has incentive to put wifi on planes... let's look at TPAC competitors....

I don't think any TPAC flights on any airline that lands/leaves Canada has wifi.
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Old May 24, 2013, 11:50 pm
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It makes me wonder, how we all survived flying in the days before AVOD, never mind inflight wifi.
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Old May 25, 2013, 3:12 am
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Originally Posted by mendy7511
Hmm, 33-0. Not that much ahead at all.
Yes but 30 of those don't make transpacific flights.
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Old May 25, 2013, 4:30 pm
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Originally Posted by mendy7511
Hmm, 33-0. Not that much ahead at all.
You are officially the first person on the internet to claim UA 744 in Y "much ahead" of anything.

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Old May 27, 2013, 12:31 pm
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Poor uptake of WiFi on AC...

I don't think they ever gave it a chance.

Had I been them, I would have tried it out on several routes to try and appeal to different demographics.

i.e. YYZ - PHX (the Snowbird / golf crowd and many business junkets)
YYZ - LAS (business types on the way to conventions)
YYZ - MCO (keep the kiddies entertained on the way to see Mickey and business types like those going to LAS)

Loved the comment about a UA 744 being ahead of anything.
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