American adding faster ViaSat WiFi to 500+ Aircraft
Feb 26, 2018, 3:33 pm
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AA2450 Complimentary Viasat gate to gate wifi today (to merge)
Just got off AA2450 AUS-ORD. The flight had complimentary gate to gate WiFi. I hadn't seen anything about this but my apologies if gate to gate WiFi has been discussed elsewhere. The flight was an older 737-800.
Feb 26, 2018, 3:38 pm
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As only a small set of aircraft have it now, I believe it is complimentary for the time being.
Feb 26, 2018, 3:38 pm
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Here is the long thread detailing it: American adding faster ViaSat WiFi to 500+ Aircraft
Feb 26, 2018, 3:41 pm
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Interesting. Either I've been very unlucky or the roll-out is going very slowly because this is the first time I've had this service. And I had about 150 domestic segments last year.
Feb 26, 2018, 4:34 pm
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Feb 26, 2018, 6:38 pm
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On their earnings call ViaSat mentioned that they had recently started retrofitting existing AA aircraft with viasat's Ka band satellite service. They are line fitting the Ka service to all the new AA 737Max's It sounded like they anticipated they would be trying to complete most of the retrofits this year. FWIW, ViaSat is bringing online it's new ViaSat2 satellite this month and it will a ton of capacity to their network so the amount of bandwidth available to individual aircraft should increase soon.
Feb 27, 2018, 6:36 am
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Feb 27, 2018, 7:04 am
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I don't know what Gogo is offering for a multi-carrier satellite pass but they have about 380 Delta aircraft fitted with their 2Ku satellite wifi service, going to more than 600. It's being fitted to mainline narrowbodies for now, as widebodies got the earlier single-band satellite service.
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