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Business class for the future - CNN Video

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awax

You lost me at Richard Quest.

UAL better do something about bridging the gap between what they advertise in glossy brochures and the reality of the experience.

Dave Fitzgerald

You mean like internet access on the planes?? Ha ha. Many FA's don't even announce it's available on the 777's anymore because it works so rarely.

pilotgolfer

I flew two planes last week from NRT that had functioning wifi for WSI. It was nice to update some of the turbulence forecasts.

UAL T38 Phlyer

Over the last 2-3 months, WSI has been functional (using free wifi) on most of the 767-300s. The only ones it doesn't seem to work on are the earliest ones, with the separate radar/terrain switches on the forward panel.

It has been an evolution...three years ago, wifi nearly always worked on the 757RR jets.

Two years ago, started having a few issues on the RR jets, and it worked about 60% of the time (domestically) on 767-300s.

Then, a year and a half ago, it was crap on all of them, except the gogo PS jets.

Except for the gogo jets, I believe almost the entire fleet has Panasonic equipment. Why? Because they offered it at no cost to install.

Unfortunately, a few maintenace guys have told me that parts are failing for which maintenance has no procedures, parts, or authorization....and Panasonic was on back-order for parts or technicians.

Are the parts finally getting into the system? Unknown...I just know I've seen it work better since June than I have in a long time.

All the above was gleaned from a variety of sources. This article was particularly enlightening. I still think Panasonic is the worst provider in the market....and the reason the equipment was "free."


The crazy economics of inflight Wi-Fi | Fortune.com

intrepidcv11

A Model Wifi from Panasonic is utterly worthless.

pilotgolfer

These were both B models. I didn't know there was a difference.

Glenntilton

The old business class on the 777 was 2-4-2

Now it is 1-2-1?

Does united charge more for the tickets?

Half wing

Stacked like Tetris so 4 per row but each row takes up half the longitudinal distance. About the same as before but every seat has isle access.

ReadyRsv

THIS.

The real deal about Polaris (besides being a little bit nicer and a blank page design not some amalgamation of whatever was cheapest between CAL/UAL) is that they figured out how to fit more people in first while make it feel spacious. GS and 1K pax all HATE middle seat in first class.

On the same page, will new 787s have Polaris?