Air Canada to Receive In Flight Wi-Fi
In flight Wi-Fi is officially coming to Canada.
Air Canada will be offering on board internet on some flights to the US (West Coast), starting in spring. Air Canada will charge $12.95 per passenger for the in-flight Wi-Fi service.
The internet service is being provided by US based Aircell, which also includes American and Delta airlines as customers. Aircell’s GoGo service utilizes a network of cell towers based on the ground in the United States. Flights over Canada will not be able to use GoGo until the towers are expanded; which will occur once it has regulatory approval.
“We can say with confidence that it’s our full intent to rollout this service across the North American (Air Canada) fleet, and as the Aircell air-to-ground network grows internationally as well,” says Air Canada’s vice president of Marketing, Charles McKee.
The 92-tower network in the US took 6 months to build, and will most likely take less than that to build in Canada.
The technology that’s installed in a plane will weigh about 18 kilograms and could be put on a small table, versus satellite technology which would use a large antenna about the size of a surfboard on top of the plane. Satellite technology is also a lot more expensive, which is why Boeing disabled their high speed internet service.
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