8 thoughts on “Hawaiian Airlines Free WiFi Test Flight: YouTube, Netflix, VideoChat At 30K/Feet”
Nancy M
I enjoy being unconnected on the trans-Pacific flights and don’t look forward to having to listen to other passengers’ conversations. For some reason, people in public, such as when in restaurants, seem to talk more loudly than they would at home, and I sadly predict that this behavior would occur on planes.
Ultimately I think onboard WiFi is the wave of the future. A good friend of ours used to work for a company that did IFE system installations. He told me once that on a wide body, twin-aisle plane like the 767 (the A330 is in the same class, the total weight of current seatback systems would be in the neighborhood of 3,500 pounds. That is quite a bit of weight to haul around and co$t$ money in fuel!
I suspect your right that Hawaiian got a sweetheart deal. Perhaps since the biggest advantage of Starlink is how well it works in isolated areas like transpacific flying and that’s all Hawaiian does so it make sense the mainland carriers didn’t see it as important since they already had wifi and didn’t see changing wifi as important when it’s biggest plus was for improving transpacific wifi. That’s why I’m so pro Hawaiian on here. Their focus is solely on the Hawaii market, everyone else it’s secondary to their big picture. It often shows up in little (and sometimes big) ways.
Oh and to your question i look forward to good wifi and the ability to text and stay connected, I only have a few serial texters in my life…Not sure how I feel about people talking on their phones though. Although I guess it’s no worse then people talking to who they are seated next to?
Curious what others think about that. Personally I would be a little uncomfortable carrying on a phone call on a flight.
For all those that say they prefer no wifi when they fly to and from Hawaii, I think that’s great. But for those of us that are required to work at certain times, wifi is necessary for Hawaiian residents and travelers.
This is too long over due. Thank you ‘Beat’ for continuing to update us.
I enjoy being unconnected on the trans-Pacific flights and don’t look forward to having to listen to other passengers’ conversations. For some reason, people in public, such as when in restaurants, seem to talk more loudly than they would at home, and I sadly predict that this behavior would occur on planes.
Ultimately I think onboard WiFi is the wave of the future. A good friend of ours used to work for a company that did IFE system installations. He told me once that on a wide body, twin-aisle plane like the 767 (the A330 is in the same class, the total weight of current seatback systems would be in the neighborhood of 3,500 pounds. That is quite a bit of weight to haul around and co$t$ money in fuel!
We too had difficulty with the SW internet, for that matter Alaska wasn’t any better.
Yes, I would like to have a functioning Starlink internet.
I suspect your right that Hawaiian got a sweetheart deal. Perhaps since the biggest advantage of Starlink is how well it works in isolated areas like transpacific flying and that’s all Hawaiian does so it make sense the mainland carriers didn’t see it as important since they already had wifi and didn’t see changing wifi as important when it’s biggest plus was for improving transpacific wifi. That’s why I’m so pro Hawaiian on here. Their focus is solely on the Hawaii market, everyone else it’s secondary to their big picture. It often shows up in little (and sometimes big) ways.
Oh and to your question i look forward to good wifi and the ability to text and stay connected, I only have a few serial texters in my life…Not sure how I feel about people talking on their phones though. Although I guess it’s no worse then people talking to who they are seated next to?
Curious what others think about that. Personally I would be a little uncomfortable carrying on a phone call on a flight.
For all those that say they prefer no wifi when they fly to and from Hawaii, I think that’s great. But for those of us that are required to work at certain times, wifi is necessary for Hawaiian residents and travelers.
This is too long over due. Thank you ‘Beat’ for continuing to update us.
Do yourself a favor: temporarily give up the internet for the five+ hour flight to/from Hawaii. Your brain will thank you.
Okay. If you have to have internet flying inter-island, you have some serious social problems that should be dealt with.