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You could also change your user agent to that of a mobile device and pay $5. Dishonesty is always an (unethical) option. The technical complexity of getting a
by maxjus 14y ago
You could also change your user agent to that of a mobile device and pay $5. Dishonesty is always an (unethical) option.
The technical complexity of getting a seamless Wifi connection 30,000 feet above ground warrants its $12.00 in my opinion.
- Firehed 14y agoOn my last flight, the price had been raised to $20 or so. I'm not sure if it was holiday price-gouging or they've simply raised their prices, but in either case I was not pleased - especially as the service quality seems to have gone down recently.
- eclipxe 14y agoI'm sure service quality being reduced has absolutely nothing to do with people bypassing the pay wall or changing their desktop user agents to be mobile for cheaper prices. Nah.
- Firehed 14y agoYou think MAC spoofing and editing your hosts file to get around a paywall has gone mainstream? I'd be astonished if there were two HN readers on most flights.
- cdr 14y agoI've found the price jumps around a bit - I don't know if there's some metric to it or what.
- encoderer 14y agoYeah, uber engages in "price gouging" on NYE and other high volume days. It's called surge pricing, and it....... Works. It works really well. It preserves a scarce resource during periods of high demand for the users who get the most value out of it. You're the second person to make this comment. It sounds so petulant, like Gogo has suddenly been subjected to common carrier status. The service suffering is a sign that they should charge even more next time. But it was certainly better than it otherwise would have been. A lower price point means more users getting a smaller piece of pie. I've been on several flights with free wifi. It's horrible.