Somewhere over the Atlantic

Been a few years since I've sent anything or posted anything from an Airplane, the last time seriously was on Singapore Airlines, probably 10 years ago, aside from the odd social media post since then.

Spent the majority of the years prior to the pandemic flying on BA, for reasons best known to BA they had this large global network but decided not to fit out the new fleet of planes with WiFi, opting to wait and see what everyone else did and then retrofit, seemed a bit of an odd approach to me, but apparently wasn't just driven by initial upfront cost but also the extra weight and the cost that incurred.

Now post the pandemic global business is very different and with people flying a lot less and relying on the technology I don't often get chance to use the tech that comes in planes.

Today I'm going from Malaga (AGP) to Newark, NJ (EWR) via Lisbon (LIS), the second leg of the flight has onboard WiFi, so I'm taking the opportunity to post something, albeit not very exciting.

TAP Air Portugal use A321LRneos on the route which seems to work, at least on the experience so far pretty well.

We are currently about 3 hours in at 33,000ft or around 10,000m.

Had this been available more broadly on the BA fleet I'd have definitely used it. On TAP Air Portugal is you just want to use simple message services like WhatsApp it is actually free.

The EU has released opened the possibility of using 5G on your handset whilst flying, can't believe it'll be included in yoiur tariff as the operators won't make any money if they do. 

The technology continues to evolve and it won't be long before video conferencing whilst flying is the norm along with streaming from the likes of Netflix.