Delta Shuttle a-GoGo

Greetings Earthlings. 

A funny thing happened today.  John and I were literally jogging through the LGA Delta Shuttle terminal at 5:31 in hopes of making the 5:30 flight and this woman shouted "Card for complimentary Wi-Fi for today's flight from GoGo!!"  What kind of social media disciples would we be if we didn't slow down just long enough to grab them from her hands?  (We missed the flight, but not becuase of the diversion!) 

So, fast forward 90 minutes and I'm online at 30,000 feet for the first time in my life.  I'm BEAT tired, but because of the significance of this moment I actually stopped reading My Horizontal Life by comedienne Chelsea Handler and logged on.  (And this is saying something because the book is exclusively about one night stands and booze and is totally fucking hilarious.)

This is going to come as a major shock I know, but being online on an airplane feels just like being online on the ground.  Only with more ear popping.  Wide spread adoption of WiFi is totally coming and while the geek in me is suuuuper psyched the business professional in me is a little apprehensive.  Not only does this mean you can be reached (and feel obligated to respond) in flight, but can you imagine the Jet Blue Hostage Crisis if everyone was on WiFi**.  In the words of Bart Simpson, ay caramba.

At any rate, the main reason I wanted to commemorate this moment is because at some point in the not so distant future I know that I will look back on this post and chuckle about the novelty of WiFi on airplanes.  But I won't chuckle as hard as when I overheard the stewardess who (erroneously) thought that the rate was $9.95 a minute.

**I have learned that the WiFi only works at 10,000 feet and above.  So I guess it would not be that interesting from a trapped on the tarmac perspective.  You could still rock out with your wireless card though.  Heh.

Comments

[Stephanie Quilao]

Woo-hoo! Blogging in the air! True, no more excuses to not answer email. However, you do get a nice person coming by with a drink cart, "Yes, may I have a bloody Mary mix on ice. Thank you!"

[MizFit]

I dont know if Id love that or hate it.
for some reason Im still the luddite who adores disconnecting in the sky :)

Miz.

[John Rosen]

Kaitlyn: I tried gogo on a coast-to-coast flight recently and, like you, was quite impressed with how similar it was to Wi-Fi here in my office. Emailing, surfing, and blogging while in flight make a lot of sense to me...and they are all far less rude thatn talking on the phone or generally foisting myself on the person in the next seat. Full disclosure: One of the mad geniuses behind gogo is a former partner of ours here at MCAworks. If you have any comments on the service, I know he'd like to hear from you. Here's his email: tweigman@aircell.com

John

[f.B]

congrats. that's really cool. and since i haven't done it yet, the novelty of air-WiFi is still pretty solid. (found you via DCBlogs)

[CatchUpLady]

@Steph and Carla - I love that you two ladies are the first to comment. What what. ;) The whole drink service while you blog thing DID kind of rock.

@John Thanks for stopping by - appreciate the responsiveness you guys are showing. It will please the social media echo chamber!

@F.B. I know, I'll stay pumped until they take away the free trials! ;) If they were really smart they'd give bloggers a free year or something...

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