To me, Delta as an airline is such a hilarious contradiction. There's no arguing that they're the best US airline operationally. They're truly the airline of the business traveler, and the fact that they're so profitable is a testament to that. Conversely, though, I don't think there's an airline in the world that slaps their…
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Since reading about Gogo substituting their own SSL certificates on your computer ( http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/gogo-inflight-internet-intentionally-issuing-fake-ssl-certificates) and explicitly stating they monitor traffic routed through their network, I've avoided using in-flight wifi. It's just not worth the security risk, especially at the prices they charge and for the kinds of flights I'm on (overnight / trans-Atlantic flights when I'd rather just sleep or snooze anyway).
This is why we stay. Plain and simple. I get where I need to go, virtually always on time, with friendly crew and ground staff, with decent food and good Wifi - and now better Wifi.
Yes, Skymiles makes me mental - but I'm not willing to give up the operational benefits.
Keeping in mind most of my travel is leisure, my desire for in-flight wifi is inversely correlated to the luxury of the cabin. The crappier the flight, the more I want to use wifi (to get my mind off how crappy it is). When I have lobster and a bed in the sky? I use every minute to savor the pampering.
"Don’t get me wrong" is now the third most frequent thing you say after "spectacular" and "phenomenal".
Wi-Fi shmifi. The best part of being in an airplane is having private time to chill and get in some serious think time.
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"Keeping in mind most of my travel is leisure, my desire for in-flight wifi is inversely correlated to the luxury of the cabin."
False. Only two continuous variables can correlate. I would rather state that there is an inverse association between the two.