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Is In-Flight Wi-Fi The End For Airline Magazines?
- jacquesm 17y agoI sure hope so, airline magazines are 90% the same from one issue to the next, with a bit of variation thrown in to make it appear to be a periodical. Really it's just a lot of boilerplate, have a look at a typical sample and count how many pages (other than ads) are copy written especially for that issue. I used to fly a lot, and I would simply buy a book or two at the point of departure and read those during the flight rather than stare at an endless procession of advertisements and the catalog of the 'duty free' (read: overpriced stuff that nobody needs, which, inexplainable seem to warrant flying all over the world in spite of never being sold) goods. I'm so happy I'm not flying 100,000 miles+ per year any longer... But with in-flight wifi that would make life a lot more bearable. For sure you'll be billed for it though. And of course it will only last until the next terrorist attempt at blowing up an airliner using the energy in a li-po battery.
- tptacek 17y agoWait, people still read the airline magazines? They didn't get killed off by iPhones, Kindles, iPods, laptops with DVD players, portable DVD players, laptops, CD walkmen, walkmen, paperback books, real magazines, and newspapers?
- jmarbach 17y agoWith all of the emerging media outlets that you mentioned above, I am more interested in the question: People still advertise in airline magazines?
- whopa 17y agoAll but the last 3 can't be used during take off and landing, and the last 3 all existed before airline magazines. There's still an audience there.
- julius_geezer 17y agoIt has been quite a while since I've flown regularly, but I remember airline magazines as pretty awful.