A380 first passenger flight

Morgans,

There are a lot of people in the world with more money than
sense!


Actually, if you really have the money, need to fly a lot, but not
enough for a long-range biz jet to make sense, what doesn't make sense
about booking the suite?

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

Thomas Borchert schrieb:

There are a lot of people in the world with more money than
sense!

Actually, if you really have the money, need to fly a lot, but not
enough for a long-range biz jet to make sense, what doesn't make sense
about booking the suite?

And if you must spend a whole working day in the plane, it may even pay
for itself to have a full featured private office during the trip. (The
double bed suite may or may not pay for itself.)

On Oct 25, 3:22 pm, Thomas Borchert
wrote:
Morgans,

There are a lot of people in the world with more money than
sense!

Actually, if you really have the money, need to fly a lot, but not
enough for a long-range biz jet to make sense, what doesn't make sense
about booking the suite?

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

But do they have access to the internet from the suites? I find it
very difficult to do work without access to my email, files and other
online resources.

On Oct 25, 3:11 pm, Andrew Sarangan wrote:
On Oct 25, 3:22 pm, Thomas Borchert
wrote:

Morgans,

There are a lot of people in the world with more money than
sense!

Actually, if you really have the money, need to fly a lot, but not
enough for a long-range biz jet to make sense, what doesn't make sense
about booking the suite?

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

But do they have access to the internet from the suites? I find it
very difficult to do work without access to my email, files and other
online resources.

You need to set up your system to sync. That way you have a current
copy on your PC. I can respond to emails for hours on end without
refreshing new ones.
The WSJ article said they had some sort of USB network connection. Not
sure if that is just internal or if internet access is available.
-Robert

On Oct 25, 7:30 pm, "Robert M. Gary" wrote:
On Oct 25, 3:11 pm, Andrew Sarangan wrote:





On Oct 25, 3:22 pm, Thomas Borchert
wrote:

Morgans,

There are a lot of people in the world with more money than
sense!

Actually, if you really have the money, need to fly a lot, but not
enough for a long-range biz jet to make sense, what doesn't make sense
about booking the suite?

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

But do they have access to the internet from the suites? I find it
very difficult to do work without access to my email, files and other
online resources.

You need to set up your system to sync. That way you have a current
copy on your PC. I can respond to emails for hours on end without
refreshing new ones.
The WSJ article said they had some sort of USB network connection. Not
sure if that is just internal or if internet access is available.
-Robert- Hide quoted text -


Most of the times I am writing proposals or evaluating other peoples
proposals, so I don't know ahead of time what resources I might need.
I may need to pull an article from a journal, or search for a piece of
information on a government database. Besides, I don't like the idea
of syncing everything that is on my server to a laptop because of the
security risk. On an aircraft that costs hundreds of millions, surely
there must be a way to link to the internet via some satellite link.
If Southwest offered internet access, I would happily take their bench
seats over private suites in a luxury airline that did not offer data
service.

Andrew Sarangan wrote:

Most of the times I am writing proposals or evaluating other peoples
proposals, so I don't know ahead of time what resources I might need.
I may need to pull an article from a journal, or search for a piece of
information on a government database. Besides, I don't like the idea
of syncing everything that is on my server to a laptop because of the
security risk. On an aircraft that costs hundreds of millions, surely
there must be a way to link to the internet via some satellite link.
If Southwest offered internet access, I would happily take their bench
seats over private suites in a luxury airline that did not offer data
service.

Singapore Airlines used to have the Boeing Connexion service for
broadband internet. Fees were something like $30 for unlimited access on
the flight.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connexion_by_Boeing

As noted in the above link, Boeing decided to shut down the commercial
service about a year ago, since they couldn't attract enough customers.

As far as the problem of having to bring a laptop, an alternative for
many people will be the use of a U3 enabled USB drive, which carries the
software and data you want. A traveler would use the computer system
provided by the airline, and not have to carry a laptop.

http://www.u3.com/

The U3 drive doesn't leave anything on the host computer, so there is a
limited security risk.

On Oct 25, 11:06 pm, James Robinson wrote:
Andrew Sarangan wrote:
Most of the times I am writing proposals or evaluating other peoples
proposals, so I don't know ahead of time what resources I might need.
I may need to pull an article from a journal, or search for a piece of
information on a government database. Besides, I don't like the idea
of syncing everything that is on my server to a laptop because of the
security risk. On an aircraft that costs hundreds of millions, surely
there must be a way to link to the internet via some satellite link.
If Southwest offered internet access, I would happily take their bench
seats over private suites in a luxury airline that did not offer data
service.

Singapore Airlines used to have the Boeing Connexion service for
broadband internet. Fees were something like $30 for unlimited access on
the flight.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connexion_by_Boeing

As noted in the above link, Boeing decided to shut down the commercial
service about a year ago, since they couldn't attract enough customers.


This defies my logic. If $30 for unlimited broadband was a hard sell,
how is $15/min for a bed on an airplane an easy sell?

Andrew Sarangan wrote:

On Oct 25, 11:06 pm, James Robinson wrote:
Andrew Sarangan wrote:
Most of the times I am writing proposals or evaluating other
peoples proposals, so I don't know ahead of time what resources I
might need. I may need to pull an article from a journal, or search
for a piece of information on a government database. Besides, I
don't like the idea of syncing everything that is on my server to a
laptop because of the security risk. On an aircraft that costs
hundreds of millions, surely there must be a way to link to the
internet via some satellite link. If Southwest offered internet
access, I would happily take their bench seats over private suites
in a luxury airline that did not offer data service.

Singapore Airlines used to have the Boeing Connexion service for
broadband internet. Fees were something like $30 for unlimited
access on the flight.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connexion_by_Boeing

As noted in the above link, Boeing decided to shut down the
commercial service about a year ago, since they couldn't attract
enough customers.


This defies my logic. If $30 for unlimited broadband was a hard sell,
how is $15/min for a bed on an airplane an easy sell?

Perhaps the people who can pay the big bucks for private suites are the
type who wouldn't soil their hands on a computer?

If you read the article in the link, they said that while the service was
popular in Europe, they couldn't get enough customers in the US. So it's
Joe Sixpack who wouldn't cough up the money.

Andrew Sarangan wrote in
ups.com:



This defies my logic. If $30 for unlimited broadband was a hard sell,
how is $15/min for a bed on an airplane an easy sell?



You can't join the mile high club on a broadband link.

--
Marty Shapiro
Silicon Rallye Inc.

(remove SPAMNOT to email me)

Andrew Sarangan wrote:

This defies my logic. If $30 for unlimited broadband was a hard sell,
how is $15/min for a bed on an airplane an easy sell?

You have to ask? G