This is something that might well happen in the future. But to retrofit this to all commercial planes is not a simple or cheap task. Many planes in the sky were

This is something that might well happen in the future. But to retrofit this to all commercial planes is not a simple or cheap task. Many planes in the sky were designed and built many years ago and so updating them to also upload to the cloud during flight requires substantial design and certification efforts that Boeing/Airbus are not going to suddenly take on unless they are forced. Adding it as a feature of any new plane designed in the future seems simpler. Although uploading everything in real time be ideal you could easily ping with the essentials for almost no bandwidth. Every minute with location, speed, altitude and half a dozen other important numbers would be a good start.