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BEU
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FUCKING 4 HOUR LAY OVER.

RAWRAWRAWRAWR

got my starwars book, empire total war on a laptop, a newspaper that has 2 day old information, and my fantastic ding dong

BRING IT

3/15/2009 3:11:24 PM

Amsterdam718
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hopefully its a cool wait. hope you got a good book. i hate eating at airport restaurants though. charlotte airport is pretty cool though. some good food places and good beer places.


if you have a lot of money on you though ... go to a bar and get plastered is another option.

3/15/2009 3:24:28 PM

ScHpEnXeL
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4 hours ain't shit

3/15/2009 3:25:35 PM

NyM410
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I actually like Airport bars... It's fascinating to me. Anytime I fly I try and get a few drinks before...

3/15/2009 3:25:47 PM

pilgrimshoes
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i love airport bars

i do not love airport bar prices

3/15/2009 3:27:14 PM

Amsterdam718
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if you're there than yeah do it. ATL even has rooms to smoke, which is cool. but ideally I hate having waits at airports. everythings so over priced and taxed and rarely do you accomplish bagging quality PUS during your air travel.

3/15/2009 3:27:48 PM

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wtf i was there like 5 days ago and couldn't find any free wireless, just the airport's $7.95 per day bullshit

3/15/2009 3:29:00 PM

dweedle
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ill be there on Tuesday

3/15/2009 3:29:42 PM

seedless
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'Free internets' is a misnomer.

3/15/2009 3:30:20 PM

Woodfoot
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BOMB

JIHAD

ALLAH AKBAR

DIRTY BOMB

DEATH TO INFIDELS

DICK CHENEY

3/15/2009 3:47:53 PM

Arab13
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Quote :
"but ideally I hate having"


wait, wut?

were you at the bar when you wrote this?

3/15/2009 3:59:01 PM

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Quote :
"where you at the bar when you wrote this?"


were you at the bar when you wrote this?

3/15/2009 3:59:44 PM

ScHpEnXeL
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lol, i was typing the same as ^

3/15/2009 4:01:40 PM

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[Edited on March 15, 2009 at 4:04 PM. Reason : d]

3/15/2009 4:04:05 PM

BEU
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company paid trip

3/15/2009 4:22:02 PM

seedless
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SO TUFF

3/15/2009 4:22:41 PM

BEU
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Gangsta corporate card.

Will fucking cut you with that bitch.

3/15/2009 4:25:07 PM

pilgrimshoes
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whoopty shit.

3/15/2009 4:26:05 PM

seedless
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I like how people brag about gong places when their company sends them, and they don't do shit while they are they but what the company sends them there for.

3/15/2009 4:26:21 PM

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i only travel for bleasure sir

business pleasure

3/15/2009 4:27:04 PM

seedless
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Ha, if I go to San Fran, I want to go on my time, and do what the fuck I want to do, and not be held accountable for my spending.

3/15/2009 4:27:57 PM

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Quote :
"I like how people brag about gong places when their company sends them, and they don't do shit while they are they but what the company sends them there for."

WAT

[Edited on March 15, 2009 at 4:28 PM. Reason : a]

3/15/2009 4:27:59 PM

seedless
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There, man, there.

3/15/2009 4:28:48 PM

BEU
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Not bragging. people were talking about how expensive it is in airports. Just saying that shit dont matta.

What I am saying. My flight boards in a few. Gotta gather my shit and ROLL THE FUCK INTO THE AIR!

Fuck when are they going to have internets in the sky??

I require recharging at thirty thousand feet.


Must flame t-dub while going 600 mph. arwarwrawrawrawrawrawarwrw

3/15/2009 4:31:37 PM

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i had a first class ticket to asia last year with wifi in the cabin, ported to satellite i guess

that was ballin'

[Edited on March 15, 2009 at 4:33 PM. Reason : http://news.cnet.com/Wi-Fi-Coming-soon-on-board-U.S.-airplanes/2100-7351_3-6080252.html]

3/15/2009 4:32:31 PM

seedless
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A real G would have tethering. But you can't use your cell phone on a flight right?

3/15/2009 4:32:37 PM

OmarBadu
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holy shit this is lame

3/15/2009 4:33:18 PM

ScHpEnXeL
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yeah it's getting more common. i'd search for the news article about the future plans for it but i don't really feel like it

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"A real G would have tethering. But you can't use your cell phone on a flight right?"

are you that fucking stupid? tethering does exactly jack shit when you don't have service in the middle of the fucking ocean.




[Edited on March 15, 2009 at 4:34 PM. Reason : ot saying he's over the ocean. i just mean tethering is useless in the air]

3/15/2009 4:33:19 PM

seedless
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^ Did you read my entire post?

[Edited on March 15, 2009 at 4:38 PM. Reason : /]

3/15/2009 4:36:16 PM

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3/15/2009 4:38:25 PM

john kruk
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i realed it.

3/15/2009 4:38:48 PM

seedless
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I realed your moms.

[Edited on March 15, 2009 at 4:39 PM. Reason : r]

3/15/2009 4:39:02 PM

pilgrimshoes
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for read, yo

3/15/2009 4:40:00 PM

seedless
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My job sent me to Johnston Co. once. How's that for balling FOR FREE?

3/15/2009 4:41:16 PM

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3/15/2009 4:41:44 PM

Woodfoot
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Quote :
"Fuck when are they going to have internets in the sky??"


southwest has four planes beta testing teh wireless web right now

3/15/2009 5:16:13 PM

dweedle
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damn why did i choose delta and continental

3/15/2009 5:16:55 PM

Woodfoot
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because southwest prolly has like 800 planes in service right now and you would have a 4/800 chance of being on a beta tester

and you don't like having to rush to get to a good seat every time you change planes

3/15/2009 5:20:00 PM

dweedle
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so ur tellin me there's a chance

3/15/2009 5:23:35 PM

pilgrimshoes
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like $25/flight too

3/15/2009 5:24:06 PM

A Tanzarian
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A more recent article:

http://arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2009/03/in-flight-internet-really-uh-takes-off.ars

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"What's aloft in America's friendly skies

As noted, several US carriers are in various stages of deployment. About 60 to 70 planes currently have Internet service active, most of them Aircell's service.

Alaska Airlines

Alaska has the particular issue of flying most of its routes over sea, mountains, and the middle of nowhere—not that there's anything wrong with the middle of nowhere, mind you, but it's awfully hard to locate a cell ground station there. As a result, Row 44 and Alaska were a logical pair.

Alaska plans to test the service in a single plane, but Alaska's marketing head Jarvis said the airline would fly the craft over a varied set of terrain and routes to get user feedback over a 60-day period. "We'll fly it everywhere around the network in this test, except for Hawaii," Jarvis said. Service is free during testing.

Although Alaska hasn't committed to Row 44, Jarvis was extremely positive about the offering, speaking of a deployment as something that will happen unless testing of the service or passenger response is other than what the firm expects.

Alaska lacks electrical outlets in any of its aircraft, but that shouldn't be a problem with its typically short-haul flights. Jarvis said many of the airlines' routes take 2 to 3 hours to cover.

American Airlines

American was the first in the air with its fifteen 767-200s equipped for action in Sept. 2008; since then the firm has said little. Aircell's Blumenstein told us that American was moving forward in 2009, but offered few details. American Airlines didn't respond to a request for comment.

American has electrical outlets on many of its aircraft models. On the 767-200, there's a scatter pattern of outlets across coach, and outlets at every seat in first class and business.

Delta Airlines

Delta has the most ambitious service planned, despite a slightly later start than its original announcements. The airline committed last year to equipping 330 planes, representing its entire domestic mainline fleet. The company had planned to have 75 planes set with Aircell late last year and to be installing service on 10 planes per week by this point in time.

Aircell's John Happ, its executive vice president for airlines, said that Delta had originally intended to handle Aircell equipment installation itself. The airline "determined that Delta didn't want to be in the Aircell/Gogo installation business," and Aircell has been ramping up its own installation lines in Atlanta for Delta. (Delta didn't provide someone for comment in time for this article.)

Happ said the original target of equipping the domestic Delta fleet before the end of third quarter 2009 was still on track, and Aircell had reached the target of installing its equipment in a single overnight window.

"It's a beehive of activity over there," Happ said.

Delta has power at every seat in certain of its trans-continental Boeing aircraft, and none at all in other models.

JetBlue

With 1MHz of air-to-ground spectrum, JetBlue's plans still remain obscure. That's enough to handle email and low-bandwidth applications, but not enough for video streaming or a plane full of bored people browsing the Web.

For now, JetBlue has a single plane that reports indicate is using Verizon's old, but still active, ground network formerly used for AirFone. Verizon and JetBlue were obliged to share spectrum during the AirFone phase-out. This offers a dial-up speed connection, which conforms to reports made in early test flights.
Northwest

Northwest was acquired by Delta in early 2008, and Northwest will start on its plans for deployment across probably about 200 of the 275 planes in its fleet. Aircell's CEO said that the Northwest schedule would start gelling later in the year. (Northwest has no planes equipped with power outlets at seats.)

Southwest

Just a few days ago, Southwest Airlines put two planes in the air with Row 44's satellite service. Whitney Eichinger, a spokesperson for the airline, said the 3rd and 4th planes were about to go live until the pilot ends in April. Service is free during testing.

Eichinger didn't hint at Southwest's future plans. The airline is attempting to fly the service on some routes regularly to ask passengers about the offering after they've had the opportunity to use it a few times.

Southwest will measure success by several factors. "For the most part, we're testing not only the customer feedback, but also the technology, and how that's working on the aircraft; and the consistency of the technology," Eichinger said.

Southwest has a fleet of more than 530 Boeing 737s in different configurations; none have power outlets for passengers.

United Airlines p.s.

So far, United has modest ambitions for an in-flight test. The company will let Aircell install access on 13 Boeing 757-200s in the second half of 2009. These planes are part of the company's p.s. operation that fly from SFO and LAX to JFK—a perfect long-haul route with technical and price-insensitive business fliers. Power outlets are at every seat.

Virgin America

A free access pass from Virgin America's launch flight last November.

Virgin America has a modest fleet now comprising 28 planes, all Airbus A319s and A320s, with 13 planes equipped with Aircell's Gogo as of Friday, according to Virgin America's Lunardini. She said the entire fleet would be unwired by May, to make Virgin America the first domestic airline with WiFi on all its planes.

Virgin America launched a new SFO-to-Boston Logan route recently, and have committed to having only planes with Gogo fly that route. "The longest-haul flight was a good place to isolate Wi-Fi service," Lunardini said.

In the near future, Virgin America will add a WiFi popup for its reservations site to let passengers know whether a plane is scheduled to fly that has Internet service on board. But, Lunardini noted, that's only necessary until May.

Virgin America has electrical outlets at every seat in the plane, along with a USB charging port."

3/15/2009 6:51:29 PM

dweedle
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I just landed here

lol I just walked by a dude on the phone and I heard "I don't want to have to go through a proctology exam"

3/17/2009 8:27:13 AM

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"i love airport bars

i do not love airport bar prices"


lol same. I love the people watching at airport bars.

3/17/2009 8:32:48 AM

Jeepin4x4
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suprisingly, this thread has some lulz.

3/17/2009 8:39:02 AM

dweedle
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This dude just walked by like 8 feet tall

Looked like doogie howser

3/17/2009 9:07:08 AM

BEU
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FUCKING HOTEL DOESNT HAVE SCIFI!

CANT

WATCH

BATTLESTARGALACTICA

3/20/2009 8:10:55 PM

Fermat
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i hear they have like some kind of super-viruses floating around on those networks. like shit that will steal your blood and stuff

3/20/2009 8:14:00 PM

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