One of the greatest things to happen to business air travel in recent times is gogo Inflight Internet. On a six hour flight from New York to Los Angeles for $12.95 I can stay connected, responding to emails and doing various other tasks that one would normally do while on the ground.
Under normal circumstances the connectivity is great, with decent through put, largely owed to the fact that it would seem few people are willing to pay the price to stay connected.
For the holiday season whoever Google and Virgin America (the greatest US domestic airline ever launched) have teamed up to offer gogo Wi-Fi for free for two months till January 15th 2009.
I would not normally look a gift horse in the mouth, nor I am not one to call Google evil, but in this one case, I might have to part for normalcy.
Unfortunately with the revised price tag of free, everyone and their mother has suddenly decided that they need to stay connected. The end result is extremely low through put and a lack of reliability.
I for one will be happy with January 15th rolls around and gogo cost $12.95 again,
