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• If You Want to Try Wifi Onboard, You’ll Have Plenty of Free Chances

  It’s no surprise that when you make something completely free, people use it a lot more often than if you make them pay. Duh. And that’s why it’s not surprising to see airlines scrambling to find a way to offer wireless internet for... Posted Nov 03 2009, 02:31 PM by The Cranky Flier Filed under: Virgin America, Inflight Entertainment, American, AirTran

• US Airways WiFi Announcement Is Not What You Think

  What exactly would you think when you saw a press release entitled, “Get Connected with Complimentary Wi-Fi from US Airways“? Yeah, that’s what I thought. Sounds like US Airways is putting wireless internet onboard and offering it for... Posted Jun 09 2009, 03:00 PM by The Cranky Flier Filed under: US Airways, Inflight Entertainment

• LiveTV Explains Why There Was Such Poor Signal Reception On My JetBlue Flight

  Shortly after I published my trip report including the non-functioning televisions on JetBlue, I received an email from LiveTV’s CEO Nate Quigley about my flight. He offered to walk me through what happened and try to explain why my flight had problems... Posted May 20 2009, 03:54 PM by The Cranky Flier Filed under: JetBlue, Inflight Entertainment

• AirTran Secretly Starts Deploying WiFi Fleetwide

  For months, we’ve heard airlines go back and forth with wifi announcements. One airline says it’ll test wifi. Another says it’ll put it on the entire domestic fleet. Another says it’ll test it on aircraft made in odd-numbered years... Posted May 12 2009, 03:56 PM by The Cranky Flier Filed under: Inflight Entertainment, AirTran

• This Week on BNET (March 30 - April 3)

  Alliance Panel at the Phoenix Aviation Symposium The alliances discussion was one of the more interesting panels, I thought. The talk centered around why and even if alliances are worthwhile. Modernizing the Fleet: Phoenix Aviation Symposium So when is... Posted Apr 04 2009, 03:25 PM by The Cranky Flier Filed under: Environment, Operations, JetBlue, Southwest, Inflight Entertainment, American, Boeing, BNET, Alliances, Airbus

• This Week on BNET (March 9 - 13)

  News and Notes From United’s 10-K United’s 10-K gave us some interesting bits on its Mileage Plus redemptions, bmi partnership, and its credit card processing agreements. Visiting Lumexis, a New Competitor in the Inflight Entertainment World... Posted Mar 14 2009, 02:37 PM by The Cranky Flier Filed under: United, US Airways, Virgin America, Inflight Entertainment, Delta, Alaska Airlines, BNET, AirTran, 787

• First Look: Testing the US Airways In-Seat Video System

  They’ve been talking about it for awhile, but it wasn’t until yesterday that US Airways turned on the screens for a two month test of a new in-seat entertainment system. The system, made by Lumexis, will only be on one aircraft (N680AW) that... Posted Mar 10 2009, 03:46 PM by The Cranky Flier Filed under: US Airways, Inflight Entertainment

• Ask Cranky: When Will Continental Airplanes Have LiveTV Installed?

  Several months ago, Continental announced a partnership with LiveTV that would bring the company’s next generation entertainment system onboard much of Continental’s narrowbody fleet. But there hasn’t been anything to show for it yet... Posted Feb 26 2009, 02:44 PM by The Cranky Flier Filed under: Continental, Inflight Entertainment

• This Week on BNET (Feb 16 - 20)

  Delta Starts Consolidating Regional Carriers Delta is taking pieces of Compass, Comair, and Mesaba and mashing them together. Seems like a good idea to me. Why is Hawaiian Installing In-Seat Video? Hawaiian is putting in seat video on its long haul fleet... Posted Feb 21 2009, 03:50 PM by The Cranky Flier Filed under: Frontier, LAX - Los Angeles, Government Regulation, Mergers/Finance, Inflight Entertainment, Delta, Hawaiian, Go!, Mesa Airlines, Mokulele, Mesaba

• This Week on BNET (Feb 8 - 13)

  Should Continental Continue to Host Events for Its Best Fliers? Continental just finished up its annual FlyerTalk event. It’s not cheap, but should they continue to spend this money on their best customers? V Australia’s Decision on Which Business... Posted Feb 14 2009, 04:08 PM by The Cranky Flier Filed under: US Airways, Technology, Virgin America, Schedule Changes, Southwest, Seats, Continental, Inflight Entertainment, V Australia, BNET, Advertising, AirTran, MKE - Milwaukee

• V Australia Welcomes Us Onboard at LAX

  Friday marked the first aircraft delivery for V Australia, Virgin Blue’s long haul arm that will inaugurate service on February between Sydney and Los Angeles. On the way down from Boeing, V Australia brought the plane to LAX for a reception and... Posted Feb 09 2009, 03:52 PM by The Cranky Flier Filed under: Seats, Inflight Entertainment, V Australia

• United Puts Wireless Internet on p.s.

  American and Virgin America have wi-fi onboard, Delta is beginning installation, Alaska and Southwest are looking to do testing, and well, Continental is at least putting live TV on their planes. But United hadn’t done anything, until now. United... Posted Jan 19 2009, 03:53 PM by The Cranky Flier Filed under: United, Inflight Entertainment

• Followup on United’s 777 Reconfiguration

  Yesterday’s post on United’s upcoming 777 reconfiguration generated a bunch of emails and comments. After sifting through everything, it appears that things will be slightly different (and better) than what I wrote yesterday. Inflight entertainment... Posted Jan 07 2009, 04:23 PM by The Cranky Flier Filed under: United, Seats, Inflight Entertainment

• United 777 Premium Reconfiguration Requiring Changes in Coach?

  Ever wonder why United is (finally) working hard to upgrade the 767 and 747 aircraft with the new premium cabin seats, but the 777 is left behind? It appears, that of all things, it’s a problem in coach that’s keeping them from getting it... Posted Jan 06 2009, 04:22 PM by The Cranky Flier Filed under: United, Inflight Entertainment, 777

• Continental to Have 80 TV Channels, Program Guide Onboard

  I had the chance to spend the afternoon yesterday with the LiveTV Crew (not to be confused with 2 Live Crew), and I have to say it was a very interesting experience. While I was there, they opened up their product roadmap to me and let me play with some... Posted Nov 04 2008, 12:40 PM by The Cranky Flier Filed under: Continental, Inflight Entertainment