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Delta Air Lines Wi-Fi offer: Is the price right?

Delta Air Lines Wi-Fi offer: Is the price right?

By: Daniel Chubb | August 6, 2008 | 1 Comment


Delta Air Lines are looking into offering customers broadband wireless internet access on its entire domestic fleet, they are hoping to get this all running by next summer. We already know that Continental Airlines had previously announced its plans to offer a similar service across a majority of its mainline fleet.

There are several other airlines looking at doing the same thing by offering or planning on offering a similar service, of course on a limited number of flights than Delta and Continental.

Delta who is based in Atlanta said that it would offer to sell Wi-Fi service to customers travelling throughout the continental United States, they are currently working with Aircell who is an airborne communications provider, and its plan is to install the network on Delta’s domestic airline fleet of over 330 aircrafts.

Now the question is “Is the price right? If the flights are 3 hours or less the new service will cost $9.95, flights over three hours the service will cost $12.95.

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  • http://www.gogoinflight.com Joe Herzog

    Mark, you raise a good point about pricing and is it “right”. We’ll soon see if the research we commissioned is on the money, pardon the pun. Most people we talk with think its fair……what do you think?

    Just a point of clarification: The service that Continental is planning to install in 2009 is an offering by LiveTV called Kiteline. It allows users to text and check some email services….but is not Broadband and does not provide extensive internet access. I think they will provide some access to cached content but not internet access as we know it.

    Closer comparisons could be found with American and Virgin America which have selected AIrcell to provide connectivity services. Additionally, Southwest and Alaska will test a satellite (vs. Air-to-Ground) solution with a company called Row44. These are true Broadband offerings while the LiveTV service will be “narrowband” with texting and access to limited cached content.