Good Ideas, Bad Implementation - #547 in a series of infinity

[daveon]

So, I'm on a flight down to LA to meet some prospective partners and Alaska Air have implemented fleetwide inflight WiFi on flights inside the "lower 48" - woohoo!  Super!  Double Plus Good!

Of course, implementing inflight WiFi without implementing inseat power?  Hmm... I suspect that I'll be turning this off pretty soon.

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[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I knew they had been testing it on specific planes, but I hadn't heard that it was fleet-wide now. Mind you, my last few trips to Oregon, I drove instead of flying -- I'll tend to do that for trips longer than two weeks.

I will have to remember to put the secondary battery into my laptop. (I have a "half-battery" that fits in the CD-ROM bay. With both the inboard and drive-bay battery, I can get as much as five hours battery life, and I've never been on an Alaska Airlines flight longer than that. I only wish I knew how to tell the computer to use the main battery first, then warn me as it swaps to the reserve battery. That would make it easier to swap in a spare main battery.