Complimentary Inflight Wi-Fi [2012]
 

My boss got an email announcing Complimentary Inflight Wi-Fi for a year! We're both executive platinum and I haven't received one yet. Anyone know anything about this?

I wish I would get the same offer! Did it come from AA or Gogo?

I hope that this is only a limited targeted offer.

Now I wonder what's going to happen to our connection speeds inflight :rolleyes:

It came from AA. I'm worried about the wifi speed too.

Hooray!! I got an invitation as well to free WiFi... with a link to GoGO..

Here's the details:

I got it too
 

I am a FORMER monthly go-go subscriber, maybe that is the ticket?

I just received the e-mail as well. Thanks Suzanne Rubin!

I have it on and off (if my travel is mainly transborder, on, if I mainly stay in Canada or fly TATL/TPAC then it's off)

I just received a similar message, except valid for 15 in-flight passes, and the message doesn't indicate a time frame for using them. I'm GLD.

I'm PLT and I got the offer (40 free sessions over the next 12 months); never subscribed to Gogo but buy individual passes about 50% of the time...

I didn't get it but I haven't used Gogo since they stopped handing out free one day passes at the AC. However I did realize how to at least use part of Gogo for certain things for free under certain conditions (not talking about aa.com). Not posting it here for obvious reasons, but PM if curious.

I received the similar email for 15 passes, and haven't used Gogo since early 2010.

Too bad all my flying lately is American Eagle and trans-oceanic...

I received this tonight. I am formerly exp, but essentially stopped flying AA since BOS<->everywhere got cut.

my offer was free wifi for up to 40 flights in 12 months. maybe their way of getting me back, but i'd rather fly direct without wifi (or paid wifi) than constantly stopping in ord or dfw, no matter where I am going

I got it. Have only used gogo when it was free.

I'm Lifetime Gold and got the 40 pass email

As a person who uses Gogo twice a week (and pays for it) this kind of pisses me off. The service I pay for will now be even slower because everyone is using free passes. There is very limited bandwith

I never seem to get these type of offers. I've used GoGo on most every flight that it's been available, had the monthly pass on several occasions when travel was bunched together.

I even recently joined their "Elite Advisory Panel", not feeling the love, I think I'll be un-enrolling, no more free info from me :td:

--wes

Why didn't I get this???:mad::mad::mad::mad:

I've purchased the unlimited monthly on and off for last 6 months and am EXP!

I'd like to get the offer. I find gogo per flight pricey ($15.99 plus tax for DFW/LGA) but the monthly fee of $34.99 (IIRC) is not bad if you are flying at least once or twice a week. The problem is that a good deal of the AA fleet is still not equipped and even some of the MD80s and 737s are not so for now the monthly price is not worth it.

Of course, the other issue as pointed out is what I call the Megabus problem. Wifi if it becomes cheaper and readily available means all of sudden everyone is online and often streaming. Will there be enough bandwidth. Now with Megabus (popular here between NYC, Phil, Baltimore and DC) the wifi is free but 10 minutes into the trip becomes excessively slow because everyone is on and wants to stream or download movies or music.

Got it, 15 free, I almost always buy the one time pass. So this is worth $150 - $180 to me Thanks, AA! :)

I got the offer for 10 passes. I have purchased gogo once or twice in the past, was plat the last 2 years but fell to gold this year (Just 2 or 3 more flights to plat this year).

So Im not sure if the offer is related to your status.

Flying out of the midwest it seems like only half of my flights even have wifi. Oh well, I probably wont use the free gogo.

All I've gotten the past couple a weeks is to sign up and pre order my onboard sandwich. ick. I would love a few passes for Gogo

I didn’t get it but as a conciliation AA is giving me a chance to meet Michael Bublé. :eek:

I didn't get one ...

Yeah, I've been meaning to google him. Who is he?

I got it, but for only 10 passes.

This seems odd, all these different pass counts. 10, 15, 40...what's the logic with that?

I got one for 40. Although it says one year, its limited to the 40 uses so it won't interrupt all you gogo subscribers too much.;)

+1

I am curious as to who is footing this bill. Over on the DL side of things, I've received free wifi sponsored by Coke and eBay. Nothing is ever free, including wifi. So I wonder where this money is coming from.

On a side note, I have not received an email from AA and currently have the monthly subscription. :td:

I got one for the 40 free uses.

Thought it was a nice offer, and very appreciated.


HP

I received an email offering 40 sessions in one year and accepted it.

My travel this year on AA has fallen off a cliff given change in business destinations as well as me getting tired of depending only on connections to anywhere in the world only through ORD. Maybe, it is targeted to try and entice once frequent travelers back...

+1. I wanted the other prizes, but I was afraid that if I won I'd have to meet him, so I deleted the message.

I got it. PLT who has bought a one-time use pass for GoGo maybe 3 times in the past 2 years. Got 15 passes.

Yet another one where the targeting appears random.

You're lucky. Mine was a chance to service aircraft lavatories with Maya Leibman. I may go for it--I can't imagine I would do a crappier job than G. Arpey! :p

As a lifetime PLT I got this offer as well. No idea who this Michael is?

It's a promo from those who provide the service, AA and Gogo, so no money needs to come from anywhere. And given that the variable cost is practically zero, the only costs are revenue foregone by targeting the wrong people.

The uptake of WiFi in the air is a fiasco (<8% IIR) so they are probably trying to hook more people on it with the hope that more will pay for it after the promo. And they probably found out that to hook people you need to make it a habit, hence the 40 sessions. It's the same as cigarette makers giving out entire packets for free, not a single cigarette.

A Canadian artist.

The ONLY reason it is a fiasco is that the Marketing VP (or VPs) at GoGo are high on LSD

Seriously, this should be a no brainer. Let us look at some of the positives:

1. We are a wired society
2. Flights are incredibly boring (unless Cheese Plate lady is on board)
3. People are hooked on FB etc
4. The cost to run the service, once the equipment is installed, is nominal

Now let us look why we DO NOT like Go-Go

1. Ridiculously high per flight fees, many a times as high as $15 a segment. Seriously, $15 for a 2.5 hour flight from DFW to BWI. No thanks! I can wait unless I have an emergency

2. Even more ridiculous monthly fees. $40 a month. Come on now, for $40 a month I can get Dish network with 200 channels, OR get Verizon FiOS with a 25/5 MB service, OR get a pretty decent cell phone plan with data from Metro PCS OR... you know where I am going with this.

If I flew EVERY DAY, then $40/month may not be so bad. But since most fliers, even EXPs (I have 55K BIS miles to date and it is only May 5), will not fly more than 5-7 segments a month, $40 a month only makes sense for those 0.1% of fliers that do 20 segments a month or better

3. No guaranteed availability. So, let us suppose I too partake some of the GoGo LSD and do buy the $40/month plan. Well guess what? On half my flights, I don't even have GoGo. Do I get a refund or credit for that? Heck no!!

4. Non availability outside the US. The long haul routes to Europe, Deep South America and East Asia should be perfect for internet use. Lots of time disconnected from family and friends will give even the most budget conscious passenger the incentive to buy a day pass. However, as GoGo is set up, no can do. Heck it don't even work in Canada, and the Canadians are almost like normal people ;)

5. Slow speed. One of the things the internet can be very useful for is playing content. One can watch movies on Hulu etc. However, with the slow speeds, watching real time movies (as opposed to the GoGo server) is nearly impossible. After about the 5th time you see "Buffering", you want to personally fly to GoGo headquarters and punch the Marketing VP

6. Auto renewal of monthly subscription with a VERY difficult process to cancel it after one month. I am willing to bet that back in the day when they had a 30 day pass, many more people purchased the pass if they thought they had a busy travel month coming up.

Now, it locks you in to an automatic renew and it is nearly impossible to get out of it without incurring a second month in charges. Clearly the Timothy Leary wannabe working at GoGo went to his equally addled board and said "Hey.. here is a plan, we are a monopoly. So let us screw with our passengers and steal their money. After all, what other choices do they have. Sucka fool dawgs!" And the board all was probably so pleased that they voted themselves $100 million in stock options and then went off to play golf


If GoGo were to start respecting its customer base, it would do a whole lot better.

I don't want to be a hypocrite and pretend I do not use the service. If I have a work emergency, I certainly will fork over the dollars. But, barring that, my attitude is that one can always wait an hour or two

Right. That's it. I'm done with GoGo. I'm sick of paying through the nose for a cr**py service that functions intermittently, and even then at the pace of a sedated arthritic snail. Adding more users who aren't ponying up for the 'privilege', gumming up the works, is more than I'm willing to tolerate.

See ya, GoGo. I'm GoneGone.