[92830] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Boeing's Connexion announcement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Dobbins)
Sat Oct 14 13:14:16 2006
In-Reply-To: <05A83E70-29BF-43FA-93A2-917FD0B013A4@ianai.net>
From: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@cisco.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 10:13:22 -0700
To: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Oct 14, 2006, at 9:45 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> Add to that laptops with 5 & 7 hour life spans becoming more
> common, and even seat power is not as necessary.
Actually, seat power isn't yet truly ubiquitous on American, though
it's becoming more common in their coach cabins over time (I fly
American more than any other airline).
Increased battery life will help, although folks often won't be
entering the aircraft with fully-charged batteries, and it's going to
be a long time before the majority of laptops in use have some sort
of longer-life battery capacity.
And coach is where most people fly. Many business travelers are
forced to fly coach by their travel departments unless/until they
acquire enough frequent-flyer miles to occasionally upgrade, or pay
out of pocket.
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