The last time I was on an flight that had WiFi (AA about 5 years ago) I tried 2 ways to get around the captive portal, both successful: 1. Setting my useragent

The last time I was on an flight that had WiFi (AA about 5 years ago) I tried 2 ways to get around the captive portal, both successful: 1. Setting my useragent to iOS Safari and trying to download the Gogo Player app to watch one of the free films. If you have Android this just serves the APK but on iOS it just has to dump you to the App Store. This seemed to give me a good half hour of connectivity. 2. I went on the live chat and asked for a free connection. The agent gave it to me.