Delta’s technical teams continue to install Wi-Fi (Gogo In-Flight Internet) at a rapid pace. A/C 957 and A/C 983 both completed Wi-Fi installation Wednesday morning. Ships 923 and 936 inducted last night for a 12-hour overnight installation.
Delta now has 50 planes flyin’ high with Wi-Fi, which is just over 15% of the domestic mainline fleet.
MD88 – 44 aircraft
MD90 – 1 aircraft
B757-200 – 5 aircraft
New tail numbers are in bold:
MD-88 Tail Numbers : 904, 905, 907-917, 919, 920, 926, 928, 929, 931, 932, 933, 947, 957, 959, 965, 982, 983, 9001, 9004, 9006-9020
MD-90 Tail Numbers : 9211
B757 Tail Numbers : 617, 640, 690-692
Chris B.
Product Manager – IFE
March 13th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
Thanks for the update! Any reason no more 757s were done since the last update? Would be a nice option on west coast-ATL flights.
March 13th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Sorry, I see now that a few 757s have been done too since the last update, just not as quickly as the MD-88s…
March 13th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
This is great. Keep them coming.
March 15th, 2009 at 3:28 am
hey chris!
i thought that DL was finishing like 10 planes a week… so why only two new tails this week? just curious….
March 15th, 2009 at 10:40 am
I’m sure you’ve stated this before, but what happens when an aircraft with Wi-Fi is retired? Can the equipment be re-used on another aircraft?
Great job keeping the line rolling!
March 16th, 2009 at 11:16 am
paparazzi1983: It appears only the newest two (from the night before the post was created) were bolded. However, a LOT more were added to the list from the last post about WiFi. The last count was 21 MD-88s and 4 757s. And that was 3 weeks ago.
March 17th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
Delta needs to set the displays at the gate to indicate if the flight has wi-fi or not.
I quickly glanced at a flight from JFK to MCO and it had the wi-fi on board image, and I thought my flight would have wi-fi but it didn’t. when I saw the same sign at MCO it said on some flights or something. I didn’t notice that in NY as I was running to make the flight. But the wi-fi logo should only be shown on flights with wi-fi.