How They Get Inflight Wireless Internet into the Plane

I love my inflight wireless internet, I’ve argued that it’s better than a first class upgrade at least on a medium-haul domestic flight.

Via AAdvantageGeek, here’s how the wireless inflight internet gets installed:

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Comments

  1. Wow I am amazed by the amout of work that goes in to adding WiFi to an airplane. Incredible.

  2. What an incredibly annoying host. Thank goodness I can skip over her stupid comments and grating laugh.

  3. I would of thought wifi would have been an option as an add on at the factory vice a aftermarket add on done by the airline.

    I really hope all that installation work is approved procedure from Boeing. I wonder what kind of regression testing they do so that they can be sure that none of the other sub systems were affected during the install.

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