On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 12:24:52PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 09:08:56 -0500, Netfortius <netfortius@gmail.com> wrote:
Just wondering this, myself. I travel fairly frequently between US and Europe, and Lufthansa was recently my choice, exclusively because of this service. Perhaps with the interdiction of computing devices on board (have not travelled since the UK incident, so I am not sure if the new rules of flying naked affect all flights?!?) there won't - obviously - be much of a need for an Internet connection ...
The main issue, from what I read, is that too few airlines followed suit. In particular, most American airlines were far too strapped financially to invest in the necessary equipment.
Duh. Did you ever read the numbers for Connexion? They managed to design a system which cost the airlines up to $1mil per plane to install, and only generated $80k/yr/plane total revenue (thats Boeing revenue not airline revenue). They had an opex of something like $150mil/yr on total revenue of $11mil/yr. Obviously there is no such thing as an FAA certified $50 Linksys WRT54G, but it never fails to amaze me how people are utterly shocked when reality catches up with their wild, unchecked, and stupid spending. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)