Free WiFi for suites, first, business, and PPS member....
Feb 14, 2018, 4:14 am
#1
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Free WiFi for suites, first, business, and PPS member....
Received this email today...right direction but I’m not sure how far 30mb will get you though.
Might still be handy if you are a PPS member traveling in PE and Y. However to me this shows that there’s still no plans to charge lower prices like Emirates.
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Complimentary in-flight WiFi for PPS Club Members
From today, all customers travelling in premium classes on Singapore Airlines A380, A350 and Boeing 777-300ER aircraft will enjoy complimentary WiFi. First Class and Suites customers will receive 100MB of WiFi while Business Class customers will 30MB of WiFi.
As an exclusive benefit for PPS Club members, you will enjoy complimentary 30MB of WiFi when travelling in Economy or Premium Economy Class on these aircraft.
To enjoy the free WiFi offering, you will only need to provide your last name and seat number via the ‘Complimentary Access’ section of the WiFi portal onboard. More details are available on the seat-back cards onboard the aircraft.
Might still be handy if you are a PPS member traveling in PE and Y. However to me this shows that there’s still no plans to charge lower prices like Emirates.
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Complimentary in-flight WiFi for PPS Club Members
From today, all customers travelling in premium classes on Singapore Airlines A380, A350 and Boeing 777-300ER aircraft will enjoy complimentary WiFi. First Class and Suites customers will receive 100MB of WiFi while Business Class customers will 30MB of WiFi.
As an exclusive benefit for PPS Club members, you will enjoy complimentary 30MB of WiFi when travelling in Economy or Premium Economy Class on these aircraft.
To enjoy the free WiFi offering, you will only need to provide your last name and seat number via the ‘Complimentary Access’ section of the WiFi portal onboard. More details are available on the seat-back cards onboard the aircraft.
Feb 14, 2018, 2:27 pm
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Received this email today...right direction but I’m not sure how far 30mb will get you though.
Might still be handy if you are a PPS member traveling in PE and Y. However to me this shows that there’s still no plans to charge lower prices like Emirates.
——
Complimentary in-flight WiFi for PPS Club Members
From today, all customers travelling in premium classes on Singapore Airlines A380, A350 and Boeing 777-300ER aircraft will enjoy complimentary WiFi. First Class and Suites customers will receive 100MB of WiFi while Business Class customers will 30MB of WiFi.
As an exclusive benefit for PPS Club members, you will enjoy complimentary 30MB of WiFi when travelling in Economy or Premium Economy Class on these aircraft.
To enjoy the free WiFi offering, you will only need to provide your last name and seat number via the ‘Complimentary Access’ section of the WiFi portal onboard. More details are available on the seat-back cards onboard the aircraft.
Might still be handy if you are a PPS member traveling in PE and Y. However to me this shows that there’s still no plans to charge lower prices like Emirates.
——
Complimentary in-flight WiFi for PPS Club Members
From today, all customers travelling in premium classes on Singapore Airlines A380, A350 and Boeing 777-300ER aircraft will enjoy complimentary WiFi. First Class and Suites customers will receive 100MB of WiFi while Business Class customers will 30MB of WiFi.
As an exclusive benefit for PPS Club members, you will enjoy complimentary 30MB of WiFi when travelling in Economy or Premium Economy Class on these aircraft.
To enjoy the free WiFi offering, you will only need to provide your last name and seat number via the ‘Complimentary Access’ section of the WiFi portal onboard. More details are available on the seat-back cards onboard the aircraft.
Yeah yeah I know, you’ll have to get to 10,000 feet first....
Feb 14, 2018, 10:49 pm
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Feb 15, 2018, 6:59 pm
#7
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With the way some responses are worded here, do people expect enough free data to stream 4k video for a few hours?
Some people are just too hard to please.
Regardless, SIA internet is reportedly slow anyways. This will just make it slower, unless they increase their link speed to the aircraft.
Feb 16, 2018, 3:13 am
#8
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No one says it has to be free (and nothing ever is) - but data caps in this day are absurd because your phones & laptops are doing all kinds of downloads/syncing in the background without telling you.SQ has one of the best products/services around which is let down by it's crappy metered Wifi service.
And everybody would like a time based pricing model - that's something that ordinary people can measure - how would I know if my iPad has used 23 MB or 12 MB of data and how much of that data has been due to a spotty connection (mainly service provider's fault). They can block streaming video there sure but make it time based - that's how most other airlines do it... and it works perfectly well.
Feb 19, 2018, 8:20 pm
#9
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Was on B777 from HND to SIN and A388 from PVG to SIN, and tried the complimentary wifi. Using it to send messages via whatsapps is still ok, But if you do have pictures to send across or receive via whatapps, it takes incredibly a long time to do so.
I made the mistake to check out the speed of the loading postings in FB and before I know it, it was reaching the 30MB complimentary mark.
In addition, sometimes, you will "lose" connection when it is flying over areas where there is restricted internet connection and this can be seen when the "Switch Off Phone" sign is illuminated.
In general, it is good manner for keeping in touch via the various messaging apps (e.g. whatsapps, LINE) but it can be very slow when surfing the internet. The welcome page will show the amount available by doing a refresh of the page. Also, there is a link to "pause" or "resume" the internet connection, if you would want to manage the amount to be used throughout the flight.
Overall, this is a good move for SQ to provide such complimentary wifi service and hope that they can extend this service to all aircraft type, as well as to enhance the internet speed.
I made the mistake to check out the speed of the loading postings in FB and before I know it, it was reaching the 30MB complimentary mark.
In addition, sometimes, you will "lose" connection when it is flying over areas where there is restricted internet connection and this can be seen when the "Switch Off Phone" sign is illuminated.
In general, it is good manner for keeping in touch via the various messaging apps (e.g. whatsapps, LINE) but it can be very slow when surfing the internet. The welcome page will show the amount available by doing a refresh of the page. Also, there is a link to "pause" or "resume" the internet connection, if you would want to manage the amount to be used throughout the flight.
Overall, this is a good move for SQ to provide such complimentary wifi service and hope that they can extend this service to all aircraft type, as well as to enhance the internet speed.
Feb 19, 2018, 8:30 pm
#10
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Was on B777 from HND to SIN and A388 from PVG to SIN, and tried the complimentary wifi. Using it to send messages via whatsapps is still ok, But if you do have pictures to send across or receive via whatapps, it takes incredibly a long time to do so.
I made the mistake to check out the speed of the loading postings in FB and before I know it, it was reaching the 30MB complimentary mark.
I made the mistake to check out the speed of the loading postings in FB and before I know it, it was reaching the 30MB complimentary mark.
Given that all the purchase options were based on data volume and not time, I decided not to push my luck.
Feb 19, 2018, 9:40 pm
#11
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Sounds like EK complementary wifi (20Mb, 2 hrs). Useful for downloading email headers, imessage, what's app , and doing text responses to emails. Just make sure automatic and background updates are turned off ....
Mar 5, 2018, 5:38 pm
#13
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Apparently Suites and First get 100 MB instead of 30 MB, and the FA told me it was per sector and not per ticket which it nice.
Posted from somewhere in the air.
Posted from somewhere in the air.
Mar 5, 2018, 6:34 pm
#14
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If you use laptop, the moment you are connected to the internet, Anti Virus definitions update will run automatically, windows update checks and will download automatically (by default) and all other background apps you may have will start eating up the data.
Such as automatic sign in of chat apps. Your 30mb will be gone before you could launch the Internet browser or E-Mail client
Such as automatic sign in of chat apps. Your 30mb will be gone before you could launch the Internet browser or E-Mail client
Mar 5, 2018, 8:33 pm
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If you run an Apple OS, not an issue.