Hey everyone…here’s the latest on the Wi-Fi installations. Our technical teams are rockin’ along and accomplishment time has dropped to an overnight visit. We now have 20 aircraft flying with Wi-Fi — 17 MD88s and three 757s.
Here’s the list of tails:
MD88 — 908, 947, 9006, 9007, 9008, 9009, 9010, 9011, 9012, 9013, 9014, 9015, 9016, 9017, 9018, 9019, 9020
B757-200 — 640, 690, 692
If any of you have used the Wi-Fi onboard Delta, I’d love to hear your thoughts.
Chris B.
Product Manager - IFE
February 9th, 2009 at 6:54 pm
And one more thing…Delta now officially has the most Wi-Fi-equipped aircraft of any airline in the world.
February 9th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Awesome! Thanks, Chris and team!
February 9th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
This is great! I’m looking forward to getting a chance to try this out sometime soon.
I have a few questions about the Wi-Fi program for a school project I’m doing.
Is there a content filter in place? How much/what kind of content is filtered?
Thanks in advance for your help =]
February 9th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
Chris,
The WiFi is a great addition to the Delta fleet, both from a competitive product standpoint and an overall consumer experience upgrade standpoint. Congrats on the continued roll-out.
Flew on a pair of MD-88s between LGA-BOS-LGA and the WiFi (while a short flight) was great, with speed comparable to low-level DSL. Download speeds were ~1.8mb/sec and uploads were around 256Kpbs (expected).
Looking forward to seeing them on more birds, especially transcons which I fly a lot of!
-G
February 9th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
Will Delta 1811 have wi-fi?
February 10th, 2009 at 12:04 am
Will Wi-Fi be installed on the 737 and MD-90 fleets? Thanks!
February 10th, 2009 at 8:38 am
Hi Chris,
Thanks for the update… glad to see this rolling out across the fleet.
A question for you… is there any way for a pax to find out what tail #’s are scheduled to be used for a particular flight? Am flying next week, and wondering if there’s a way in advance to see if I might get lucky and have a flight with WiFi.
Thanks, pmcary
February 10th, 2009 at 11:27 am
Wow, you guys are surely rolling along quickly. Looking forward to flying on one of the equipped birds!
February 11th, 2009 at 8:38 pm
I used wifi on the shuttle during the free period before new years. It worked very well, impressively quick. The price seemed steep for the short shuttle flight (30 minutes of usage time), but I think would be okay for flights over 2 hours. When you get it on some more planes you should think about about discounts for CRC members, or monthly subscriptions? Or the abilty to buy the pass in the terminal over boingo and then transfer it to the plane at least in hubs.
February 11th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
Jayo Z…yes we do filter certain sites that would universally be deemed inappropriate for the cabin environment.
HWGeek & SAN767DL…every a/c in the MD88, MD90, 737, 757-200 and 767-300 (domestic) fleets will be fitted with Wi-Fi. Additionally, we’ll begin installs on the A319 and A320 fleets beginning in late 2009/2010.
pmcary…unfortunately we don’t currently have a way to identify the tail number in the purchase path on delta.com.
golich17…thanks!
adammarcw…thanks for the feedback. I’m confident you’ll see some additional plans and partnerships offered in the future.
Keep the comments comin’!
February 12th, 2009 at 12:23 am
Thanks Chris, I really appreciate your clear response (very good for essay writing
- quoted of course (if it’s okay with you)). I was also wondering if you use your own in-house filtering software or a third-party program such as WebSense. I’d like to do some research on it and the IB (International Baccalaureate) likes specifics.
Again, I really appreciate your response. I’ll email you guys my paper when it’s done if you want =]
Joshua Z.
February 12th, 2009 at 8:32 pm
@Chris I meant if delta 1811 from JFK to Orlando has wi-fi already as I will be on that flight next week.
February 16th, 2009 at 12:49 am
Hi Chris,
Thank you for the information. One suggestion that might help with what HWGeek is looking for is to do something like Continental does on their web page. I know you are able to view the ship number when looking at flight information. It is usually available the evening before a flight. Is something like that possible for Delta?
February 16th, 2009 at 10:36 pm
I logged in two weeks ago and listened to my local talk radio sports station in Portland. I emailed them that I was at 30,000 feet over LA listening to the show. They were blown away. The sound came in loud and clear.
April 24th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
Hi Chris,
I have used the WiFi on two occassions now. The first was flawless, the second was flawless until it quit all together (Flight to St. Thomas - I suspect we went out of range). During the time it worked - it was amazing. I updated my Facebook page from 30,000 feet and it really made the time fly (pun intended). Once the whole fleet is updated I can see a time where a transcontinental flight could be very productive time for me between email and chat. Thanks for being so progressive on this… now if you could just add this to the 14 hr Dubai route!
May 12th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
I used the Delta Wi-Fi on a flight from Boston to Atlanta last week. It worked very well and was impressed with the speed. I was probably the only one on the flight using it :-), but still was very fast.