WiFi on airplanes

Would you be willing to pay for WiFi access to last the duration of a flight? That's anywhere from a few minutes to a couple of hours. Some planes have been fitted with the infrastructure to provide passengers wifi internet access during the flight. It wasn't cheap. So don't expect cheap internet access. If you're just going home to say, Davao, which is less than two hours from Manila by plane, will you really spend for internet, when internet is cheap in Davao. The internet shops in the shopping center charge about 20 per hour. In Davao, you can get 10 or even cheaper.

But if you've got really important business or a life-or-death obsession with facebook or twitter or other social networking site, then i'd bet you would pay for such service. Who really has such life-or-death obsession? I can't relate, so I bet no one or very few would pay such high prices keep updating their facebook status every couple of minutes. But this airplane wifi could be good for those whose business transactions can't be interrupted by plane rides or sleep. But the thing is, there are also just a few of them. More correctly, they comprise of only a small percentage of passengers. But I could be wrong. Maybe this airplane wifi has a future. After all, if you could charge it to your client, why stop working just because you're 30,000 feet from the ground.