Amex Platinum card holders get 10 free GoGo flight passes per year. It's a relatively new benefit. (Amex Platinum, not the DL Plat Amex)

You must claim the passes. It was easy and they now show up in my GoGo account. I only use GoGo on cross country flights, so the 10 annual passes are perfect. For short flights I can live without the overpriced GoGo.

I thought those were for the biz version of the platinum card? Or does the personal version also have this benefit?

No, you're right. Only the business/corporate Amex Platinum. Not the personal one.

As someone who is provided a corporate GoGo subscription and, when it works, is able to get a lot done while flying, I very much appreciate managing the use of bandwidth by varying the price.

Does anyone know if the pricing is dynamic during the flight (i.e. as more people get on-line the price increases)?

Fixed that for ya. :)

I used to expense it too, but I made our mgmt a deal a few years ago that if they got me a hotspot, I'd quit expensing gogo. A hotspot is at least 10x as valuable to me. For a while I just hacked it, but it's so slow now that it's not even worth the effort. It's really not that hard to work offline for an hour or two.

My company gave me a hotspot 8 years ago when I took the position. Between that and them paying my home Internet, I don't have an issue with them not paying for GoGo.

Not sure this is right (for much longer), mine just went to $49.95 as of 7/1. Bet your next bill goes up $10.

[added] The price actually went up like a year ago, but I (and I assume you) were grandfathered for a year.

I tolerated gogo's lousy bandwidth and spotty coverage when I was flying every week, and the cost was $40/month.

I fired gogo when they were caught breaking into encrypted web page sessions using a dynamically generated self signed certificate for domains like gmail.com. Their lame reasoning was that they needed to do that to block streaming content. If that is an example of their development team's finest reasoning, the entire lot of them should be fired for gross incompetence.

Checking with seatmates from time to time on different flights, I find that gogo performance has gotten worse (I didn't think that could be possible), and they raised the price. Thanks, but no.

It seems like I see those emails once or twice a year, the "Hey we're gonna jack the price up, but we're not going to tell you by how much" emails. I don't think I've ever actually paid for it, nor would I. I used it a lot two years ago in the Fall when they had those Allstate sponsored free sessions on weekends, and I've won hour passes from Gogo promotions (and an iPad, which is probably the only good I've gotten out of gogo). Back in April I had my first flights on B6, and their FREE internet was just as good as GoGo, if not mildly better. I am not at all surprised by the extremely low percentage of people that buy it. It seems like th only people I see using it are about half the F cabin, and a few other people in Y, who either have a subscription through work or just have money to throw away (like the middle-aged woman who plays Words with Friends and Bejewled with friends for two hours).

They stopped doing that about a week after being exposed.

the cost also depends how much $$$ the airline wants. i haven't seen high pricing of wifi on Alaska like I do on Delta.

Also - when you guys have slow connections - click on live chat and ..... about it. i did today flying SEA-JNU and they gave me a $15 credit. The towers in British Columbia must be hurting because I've never had such a slow slow SLOW experience and I'm used to Chicago/Dallas/Atlanta being uber slow.

It's hilarious how mission critical go go is to all the DYKWZiAs until either they have to pay 50 per month or the company stops paying for it.

" negotiate a hotspot with mgt?"

Lol!!

Maybe not you haven't seen these prices but AS certainly sets the upper bound of GoGo pricing pretty high, especially for a carrier that has few flights >2500 miles.

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Is that a single flight/24 hour pass or a monthly pass though?

Yes. Sorry meant to mention this was with the business card.