On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 12:24:52PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: > > On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 09:08:56 -0500, Netfortius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)