{"id":650055,"date":"2010-02-01T08:30:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T13:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10001382"},"modified":"2010-01-31T22:20:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T03:20:45","slug":"wifi-taking-flight-at-southwest-later-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/650055","title":{"rendered":"WiFi Taking Flight At Southwest Later This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/01\/southwest-thumb-158x144-36547.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>Southwest Airlines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/business\/chi-biz-southwest-wifi-jan29,0,2177972.story\">plans to add WiFi<\/a> in the second quarter of this year, the Chicago Tribune reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Southwest will install equipment on about 15 aircraft per month initially and gradually increase that rate to 25 planes per month. It estimates that Wi-Fi will be available on the more than 540 planes in its fleet by early 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn little more than two years, Internet service has become widely available on flights within the U.S. Itasca-based Aircell, the leading Wi-Fi provider, has installed its Gogo service on about 700 jetliners and earlier this month raised $176 million to further fuel its growth.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Pricing info hasn&#8217;t been released. How much would you be willing to play to websurf on a long flight?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/business\/chi-biz-southwest-wifi-jan29,0,2177972.story\">Southwest to install Wi-Fi on planes<\/a> [Chicago Tribune] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southwest Airlines plans to add WiFi in the second quarter of this year, the Chicago Tribune reports: Southwest will install equipment on about 15 aircraft per month initially and gradually increase that rate to 25 planes per month. It estimates that Wi-Fi will be available on the more than 540 planes in its fleet by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2J6L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}