[AusNOG] WIFI/Internet on Planes

[Joe Saxton]

CASA have recently released a bulletin allowing Australian airlines to seek exemptions for passengers to use portable electronic devices (under 1KG) during take-off and landing procedures. Although devices must still remain in flight mode.
http://www.casa.gov.au/wcmswr/_assets/main/lib100247/003.pdf
http://www.amta.org.au/articles/Mobiles-in-flight-mode-can-be-used-on-landing-and-take-off-says-CASA

Qantas may be the first to announce it sometime this year.

From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Skeeve Stevens
Sent: Tuesday, 8 July 2014 11:06 AM
To: Curtis Bayne
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Subject: Re: [AusNOG] WIFI/Internet on Planes

Virgin are half way there... they are introducing/have introduced WiFi in-flight entertainment systems so you can BYOD... makes a hell of a lot of sense.

Shouldn't be too much of a drama to add internet to it.


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On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Curtis Bayne <curtis at bayne.com.au<mailto:curtis at bayne.com.au>> wrote:
Joel,

It's absolutely crazy this isn't available in Australia. The FAA has allowed transmitters on American flights for a number of years now and CASA, as usual, are dragging the chain.
Mobile phone reception on planes actually isn't too bad below 25000ft considering the downward elevation with which the sectors are usually aligned. I've got a friend who is a commercial domestic airline pilot - he reckons the bottom on the cockpit window is the best place to stick your phone on hotspot mode in Boeing aircraft ;)
Regards,
Curtis

On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Zone Networks - Joel <joel at zonenetworks.com.au<mailto:joel at zonenetworks.com.au>> wrote:
Hi Guys

Slightly off topic but was wondering if anyone has recently used the internet connection on international flights from Sydney to USA

I know the following airlines have it available

Singapore
Emirates
United Airlines

Pity Qantas doesn’t…

Have used it a lot within Domestic US flights but since I fly mostly Qantas have no experience with other airlines on International flights

Please reply off the list unless others are interested as well.

Regards
Joel

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