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On Oct 25, 7:30 pm, "Robert M. Gary" wrote:
On Oct 25, 3:11 pm, Andrew Sarangan wrote: On Oct 25, 3:22 pm, Thomas Borchert wrote: Morgans, There are a lot of people in the world with more money than sense! Actually, if you really have the money, need to fly a lot, but not enough for a long-range biz jet to make sense, what doesn't make sense about booking the suite? -- Thomas Borchert (EDDH) But do they have access to the internet from the suites? I find it very difficult to do work without access to my email, files and other online resources. You need to set up your system to sync. That way you have a current copy on your PC. I can respond to emails for hours on end without refreshing new ones. The WSJ article said they had some sort of USB network connection. Not sure if that is just internal or if internet access is available. -Robert- Hide quoted text - Most of the times I am writing proposals or evaluating other peoples proposals, so I don't know ahead of time what resources I might need. I may need to pull an article from a journal, or search for a piece of information on a government database. Besides, I don't like the idea of syncing everything that is on my server to a laptop because of the security risk. On an aircraft that costs hundreds of millions, surely there must be a way to link to the internet via some satellite link. If Southwest offered internet access, I would happily take their bench seats over private suites in a luxury airline that did not offer data service. |
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Andrew Sarangan wrote:
Most of the times I am writing proposals or evaluating other peoples proposals, so I don't know ahead of time what resources I might need. I may need to pull an article from a journal, or search for a piece of information on a government database. Besides, I don't like the idea of syncing everything that is on my server to a laptop because of the security risk. On an aircraft that costs hundreds of millions, surely there must be a way to link to the internet via some satellite link. If Southwest offered internet access, I would happily take their bench seats over private suites in a luxury airline that did not offer data service. Singapore Airlines used to have the Boeing Connexion service for broadband internet. Fees were something like $30 for unlimited access on the flight. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connexion_by_Boeing As noted in the above link, Boeing decided to shut down the commercial service about a year ago, since they couldn't attract enough customers. As far as the problem of having to bring a laptop, an alternative for many people will be the use of a U3 enabled USB drive, which carries the software and data you want. A traveler would use the computer system provided by the airline, and not have to carry a laptop. http://www.u3.com/ The U3 drive doesn't leave anything on the host computer, so there is a limited security risk. |
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On Oct 25, 11:06 pm, James Robinson wrote:
Andrew Sarangan wrote: Most of the times I am writing proposals or evaluating other peoples proposals, so I don't know ahead of time what resources I might need. I may need to pull an article from a journal, or search for a piece of information on a government database. Besides, I don't like the idea of syncing everything that is on my server to a laptop because of the security risk. On an aircraft that costs hundreds of millions, surely there must be a way to link to the internet via some satellite link. If Southwest offered internet access, I would happily take their bench seats over private suites in a luxury airline that did not offer data service. Singapore Airlines used to have the Boeing Connexion service for broadband internet. Fees were something like $30 for unlimited access on the flight. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connexion_by_Boeing As noted in the above link, Boeing decided to shut down the commercial service about a year ago, since they couldn't attract enough customers. This defies my logic. If $30 for unlimited broadband was a hard sell, how is $15/min for a bed on an airplane an easy sell? |
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Andrew Sarangan wrote:
On Oct 25, 11:06 pm, James Robinson wrote: Andrew Sarangan wrote: Most of the times I am writing proposals or evaluating other peoples proposals, so I don't know ahead of time what resources I might need. I may need to pull an article from a journal, or search for a piece of information on a government database. Besides, I don't like the idea of syncing everything that is on my server to a laptop because of the security risk. On an aircraft that costs hundreds of millions, surely there must be a way to link to the internet via some satellite link. If Southwest offered internet access, I would happily take their bench seats over private suites in a luxury airline that did not offer data service. Singapore Airlines used to have the Boeing Connexion service for broadband internet. Fees were something like $30 for unlimited access on the flight. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connexion_by_Boeing As noted in the above link, Boeing decided to shut down the commercial service about a year ago, since they couldn't attract enough customers. This defies my logic. If $30 for unlimited broadband was a hard sell, how is $15/min for a bed on an airplane an easy sell? Perhaps the people who can pay the big bucks for private suites are the type who wouldn't soil their hands on a computer? If you read the article in the link, they said that while the service was popular in Europe, they couldn't get enough customers in the US. So it's Joe Sixpack who wouldn't cough up the money. |
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Andrew Sarangan wrote in
ups.com: This defies my logic. If $30 for unlimited broadband was a hard sell, how is $15/min for a bed on an airplane an easy sell? You can't join the mile high club on a broadband link. -- Marty Shapiro Silicon Rallye Inc. (remove SPAMNOT to email me) |
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Andrew Sarangan wrote:
This defies my logic. If $30 for unlimited broadband was a hard sell, how is $15/min for a bed on an airplane an easy sell? You have to ask? G |
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On Oct 25, 9:33 pm, Andrew Sarangan wrote:
On Oct 25, 11:06 pm, James Robinson wrote: Andrew Sarangan wrote: Most of the times I am writing proposals or evaluating other peoples proposals, so I don't know ahead of time what resources I might need. I may need to pull an article from a journal, or search for a piece of information on a government database. Besides, I don't like the idea of syncing everything that is on my server to a laptop because of the security risk. On an aircraft that costs hundreds of millions, surely there must be a way to link to the internet via some satellite link. If Southwest offered internet access, I would happily take their bench seats over private suites in a luxury airline that did not offer data service. Singapore Airlines used to have the Boeing Connexion service for broadband internet. Fees were something like $30 for unlimited access on the flight. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connexion_by_Boeing As noted in the above link, Boeing decided to shut down the commercial service about a year ago, since they couldn't attract enough customers. This defies my logic. If $30 for unlimited broadband was a hard sell, how is $15/min for a bed on an airplane an easy sell?- Hide quoted text - According to the WSJ article the airline's market analysis showed that those in business class want to work and are excited to be in big seats. Those in 1st class are used to being taken care of and just want to sleep. No internet connection required. -Robert |
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Marty Shapiro wrote:
This defies my logic. If $30 for unlimited broadband was a hard sell, how is $15/min for a bed on an airplane an easy sell? You can't join the mile high club on a broadband link. But you can on a band of broads. -- Message posted via AviationKB.com http://www.aviationkb.com/Uwe/Forums...ation/200710/1 |
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Gig
Are you talking about a hot bed operation ) Big John ************************************************* On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 08:16:42 -0500, "Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote: Morgans wrote: "S Green" wrote Anyone with a tenner can join the mile-high club, if they're prepared to fool around in a low-cost airline's smallest room. But this week we found out the price of doing it in style: about £4,000. I bet they could double the price and double the beds, and fill them on every flight. There are a lot of people in the world with more money than sense! Probably right. But the way to generate the most income from them is to auction them off in flight about 5 hours in to a 16 hour trip. |
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James Robinson schrieb:
http://www.u3.com/ The U3 drive doesn't leave anything on the host computer, so there is a limited security risk. but if you still need to cross an American border - there lies the security risk. #m -- I am not a terrorist http://www.casualdisobedience.com/ |
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