Technology in the Lounges
 

Wys is it that AA (in the USA) and BA (in the UK) are so low-tech when it comes to Internet access?

For over two years now Canadian, Air Canada, Qantas and Air New Zealand have had several PC's scattered around their lounges with direct access to the Internet - great for being to retrieve E-mail from a hotmail account to which I forward E-mails during trips.

In spite of some complaints, hats off to those airlines who understand and address the requirements of their business travellers who rely on daily E-mail retrieval - even when half way around the world.

I posted just this kinda question on the UA board recently at:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum50/HTML/002294.html

Where is the trip report ?

All the US Admirals Clubs I've been to in the past couple of years have had HP Vectra PCs with free Internet access. They're in the section with the phone "booths" rather than scattered around the lounge, but they're there and they (usually) work. Only real problem is that once in a while someone gets engrossed in a long series of solitaire games, but you can usually glare them off (or ask their parents to get them off).