Some airlines offer free wifi, but the ticket prices are usually higher. There's definitely a pretty large cost to offer wifi on an airplane. Most of it these days is satellite based, and there are large antennas on top of the airplane in a dome shaped structure. This increases drag requiring a slight increase in fuel burn. Over time that adds up. The prices here do seem high, considering you only get a small amount of bandwidth. The 80MB option can be blown through just by viewing photos.

[–] Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago

Yeah but data rate caps are money grab bullshit and everyone knows it.

If they really wanted to measure it per what it costs them it'd be unlimited with speed caps, just that doesn't make nearly as much money

And like any right drag increase(by extension fuel) would be easily lost to favorable or unfavorable winds, the noise is so small considering it is a joke - the extra $0.01 per flight ain't gonna cost them the $50 per passenger they're charging (made up numbers but I'm not gonna whip out drag calculations just yet lmao)

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Should be traffic shaping instead of data caps.
One can text at 50kib/s and the other can stream at 2 mbit/s or something like that.

[–] dansity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Scoot is one of the cheapest flights in mainly south east asian region. They are in pair with ryanair in cheapness and low quality service.

[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

in pair

Do we have a boneappletea magazine on Lenny?

[–] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'll give them the Benny fit of the doubt and assume it's an autocorrect failure, but yes: !boneappletea@lemmy.world

[–] PlasticFrog@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Oh okay thanks, had no idea. :-)

[–] christophski@feddit.uk 22 points 1 year ago

Infrastructure for Internet access on a plane is very expensive and low-bandwidth so this is not surprising