When the revolution comes, everything will be free! Ping to Today show list.
Only a perpetually aggrieved Liberal, but I repeat myself, could complain about a free gift.
If you think health care is expensive now, just wait ‘til it’s free!
~ P.J. O’Rourke, a few years ago.
I think dear, precious Mika thinks that WIFI on an airplane is like getting tap water in a diner. They have it anyway, so why NOT share.
Getting WIFI to work reliably, and with enough throughput to satisfy half a plane of travellers streaming Netflix, YouTube, Amazon and the occasional WebEx meeting is NOT an inexpensive undertaking. You cannot just plug in a MIFI box and a Netgear wireless box and be done.
On the airplanes I don’t have a problem with there being a service charge.
In the airport (which can be publicly built) may be a different breed of animal.
Additionally, I didn’t like the United gave 1 hour free (not cumulative but clocked from initial login) with $8 or so for a day’s use. Well typically you will only wait at a gate for an hour. I got stuck waiting 8+ hours in good clear weather and kept getting 1 hour and 2 hour delay notices. If they’d been upfront about the TRUE delay I would’ve opted for the service. So I never got to use my computer in the remaining 7 hours (nor did I use more than 15 minutes total). Making the gates free is at least a small comfort for the passengers on delayed flights.
I think airlines would be wise to include it in the price of a ticket as a way to differentiate themselves from the competition, just like Southwest not charging for bags (at least for now).
I missed the part where the providers fiscal planners asked the ditz for her advice on the matter.
“Free” just means that it’s included in the ticket price.
Like the wealthy aristocrat remarked during WWII bread rationing in England, “Oh, bread rationing doesn’t affect us. We always have toast.”
Last time I used WiFi at BWI Airport some idiot got my American Express card info and charged $27,000 dollars to my card for freight fees. Fortunately Amex contacted me immediately. Never again!
Bleach has consequences.
I wonder, does MSLSD pay for internet service?
Or should the internet companies provide it for free, Mika?
Ditzes like Mika are why there are Polish jokes.
This fascinating video from United Airlines showing wifi installation in a commercial jet aircraft CLEARLY demonstrates that there is zero cost to providing wireless on planes and these carriers are nothing more than selfish, evil, money-grubbing capitalists.. /snark
So just add the cost to the tickets of all flyers including those who do not use the wi-fi. Mika is an idiot...when I teach college economics my first day lesson is there is no free lunch.
“A liberal paradise would be a place where everybody has guaranteed employment,
free comprehensive healthcare, free education, free food, free housing,
free clothing, free utilities, and only law enforcement has guns.”
“And believe it or not, such a place does, indeed, exist. It’s called prison.”
Sheriff Joe Arpaio
Maricopa County Sheriff
The BLOND never gets it nothing is free someone has to pay for it.