I would have been glad to used Connexion on US flights. I think the technology had a lot of promise.

I also do not think that it will be very easy to duplicate Boeing's supporting technology.

Regards,

Don Turnblade

Boeing wanted to charge $9.95 per hour, or $26.95 per flight; Google, Yahoo, and even -- gasp! -- maybe AOL have figured out ways to make money by giving away their primary consumer product. I;ve never been on a flight that offered Connexion by Boeing, but there's little likelihood that I'd have paid that kind of money to surf en-route. Read advertising aimed at the "travels with a Wi-Fi laptop" demographic in order to do so for free, much more likely; pay for the privilege, nope.

I have used this service and found it invaluable. This is one of those few technologies (DVR, Cellphone, etc) that once you have used it, it becomes very difficult to go back to not having it. A case in point - on a flight this last spring from SFO to Frankfurt I was able to do my email and banking, watch the masters tounament on my DVR (thanks to slingbox) and make several phone calls using an IP softphone on my PC - all for $26.95. I turned what would have been dead time for me into a productive 11 hours esentially for $2.45 an hour. How can they not make this work!?!