As I've explained many times before, inflight Wi-Fi has really changed my ability to travel. As someone who can work from a laptop with an internet connection anywhere in the world, it greatly reduces the “opportunity cost” of time I spend on planes. Given the amount of domestic flying I do, a Gogo Unlimited monthly…
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Perhaps it is selective? I just checked my account and my US/AA pass is still $39.95 per month. Any higher and I'd probably cancel as I only use it a few hours a month.
Haven't received notice and I'm still at $39.95 from a couple of years ago. If price goes up I'll still pay, but I'd argue their connection service is getting worse rather than better (I fly only AA).
I've not received a notice either (on an unlimited AA/US plan for $50/month). As I'm on a plane, I just took a look at the single flight pass option: $29.95 for BOS to PHX. Ouch. And the service has been less reliable on this flight than in recent memory, so it sounds like they're trying to reduce demand with the higher prices, in order to increase the quality, something you mentioned in a previous post.
I'm grandfathered into an AA/US unlimited plan for $39.95 a month. I enrolled around January 2014. I haven't received any notice of price increase either.
Interesting. Price increases before the service can be sampled by existing loyal customers. Marketing talk about speed. Not a word about security improvements. Buyer beware.
GoGo is so freaking slow that I don't even bother. It just raises my blood pressure. Maybe I've had bad luck?
Use to consult there. What a mess. That said, 3x speed of crap is still crap. Ben's probably just checking email and uploading his blog, not much of a bandwidth hog.
I forget the exact #s, but I believe their "slower" speeds were 1.5M...shared among the WHOLE plane. What was particularly disturbing is the pilots would all get together on a unlimited plan, and share it in their pool of 10-15 pilots for each pool. Soo, even if you see all of F asleep, you can be assured the pilots are sucking up what is available.
Typically the biggest planes are the ones w/ the faster speeds. Well, there are 2-3 times the # of pax on them too, that's how they justify putting in the Sat. communications (which is pretty expensive for them) b/c on the bigger planes, they know the %age uptake and what the, rough, usage will be.
Finally, it isn't the F cabin that sucks the bandwidth most of the time. it's the pilots streaming video or coach w/ the family of 4 with 2 kids streaming some game. F is usually trying to do work, which generally equates to lower overall usage of bandwidth.
@ Gene -- It is sometimes slow, but I use it mostly for email/writing blog posts, which doesn't require much bandwidth.
I just got the email notice of increase today. I'm going from $39.95 to $59.95 (50% increase). I am an AA/US/AS flyer but this year I am doing fewer segments than in the past (still will hit highest AA status). It's enough of an increase to make me pause, because I've also experienced slow service that causes my VPN to drop off from time to time. However, when you look at the per flight charges I can't really justify not having the monthly because even 4 segments is always going to cost more than the monthly.
I wish I could just disconnect when I'm flying, but even when I don't have to work, I can clean up some of my personal email that backs up during the week. When I end up on the rare non-Gogo plane, I feel so lost these days.