Loic has created a bit of a frenzie with his first post and moblog at 36 000 feet over Greenland. He was flying SAS (and paid $29 to access the plane's Wifi network) en route to Seattle for MSN Search Champs II.
Like Rodrigo and Pascal, and many others, I rushed on Skype to IM him (I bet Loic has not done much besides spending a lot of his 12-hour flight IM'ing with a bunch of his readers). Unfortunately I was not there when he replied to my message.
I just checked: Air France is offering a new cabine design and new uniforms (Flying Blue they call it), but no Wifi on board. So no cool Skyping for me on my way to Les Blogs next Saturday. Damn!
Update: Phil Wolff over at the excellent Skype Journal points out that students in the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station are set to skype today with one of the astronauts on the ISS.
Loics comments and report from the SAS/Scandinavian Airlines flight MADE MY DAY. After having worked hard and learned what is out there(4 years)....a looong time to find the best possible internet platform for our customers...we became the first airline to equip our entire long haul fleet with all wireless high speed internet empowered by Connexion by Boeing.
I am VERY HAPPY to see that people are enjoying it!
Johan Eriksson
Projectleader SAS NetAccess
Posted by: Johan Eriksson | May 21, 2005 at 12:02 PM