American Airlines To Add Inflight Internet Access To Nearly 250 Regional Jets
 

http://hub.aa.com/en/nr/pressrelease...regional-jets-

Looks like this is finally going to happen after being originally announced for AA's E175 regional fleet and then swiftly abandoned.

According to the press release, all jets with two-class service will receive Gogo by 2016.

Two years? DL and U.S. have had wifi on their large RJs since the 2010-2011 time frame.

So for that reason they shouldn't bother now then by your account?

finally

You mean one year...

Nearly 250 of American’s regional aircraft will have inflight wireless Internet service installed by 2016. With this installation, the world’s largest airline will have the largest fleet of connected regional jets.

That's not true if they're done at 250 because DL has more RJs than that with wifi today.

Correct... by my count, DL will have 321 2-class RJs next year... and I believe that all of them have wifi. Guess someone forgot to check their facts before they put out their press release.

That's 49 months -- if they're on time, which past experience with any improvements (not "enhancements", which are rolled out in milliseconds) show they won't be.

BTW, RJs are more than half of their domestic flights, IIRC 53% of them.

FUD does not depend on facts.

Well goodness it's about time. Disappointing that it has taken this long, especially for the E-175's as it was initially announced.

I can't find it now, but as I recall, the addition to the US large regionals took only a day or two each and was done during overnight maintenance windows at certain hub airports. I guess I have no idea how this has to take so long.

How do you figure 49 months? The press release says "by 2016" which would mean 13-24 months.

I'd read "by 2016" to mean 12.5 months. "By the end of 2016" would mean 24 months. But it's possible AA uses the English language differently than I do. But I have no idea where 49 months came from. Did hillrider confuses months in a year with hours in a day and figure two years is 48 months? ;)

I'd agree.

In airline speak, "by [year]" historically has meant by the end of said [year]. Or later. :)

How many actually need to get done? USex already has wi-fi on its E170/175 fleet. Just not on their CR7s and CR9s. AA is getting their new CR9s with wi-fi already installed. So it's basically the Eagle and USex CR7s, the Eagle E175s, as well as the USex CR9s.