{"id":27604,"date":"2014-11-28T09:30:43","date_gmt":"2014-11-28T08:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=27604"},"modified":"2019-04-30T16:25:52","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T14:25:52","slug":"airfrance-partners-orange-project-expand-wifi-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2014\/11\/airfrance-partners-orange-project-expand-wifi-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"Airfrance partners with Orange on project to expand wifi on its flights"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last year, Airfrance-KLM rolled-out a very limited launch of wifi on its flights – Paris.New York (Air France) and Amsterdam-Panama (KLM)<\/a> at a price of 10.95 eur for one hour and 19.99 eur for connectivity for the entire flight. Presumably, the first experiment proved to be enough of a success for them to establish a partnership with Orange and continue testing on additional flghts. \u00a0This time the focus, however, will be on short and medium-haul flights on 2 Airbus 380s. The tests will kick-off in summer 2015 and will take continue for a period of three months.<\/p>\n

In a recent study with 2k passengers, Air France found that the vast majority of its clients, roughly 78%, are interested in having access to wifi on-board. \u00a0However, travelers don’t seem to view wifi access as an additional service they should have to pay for as only 28% expressed that they would be ready to pay for wifi access on-board. Most other airlines that offer wifi on-board do charge for the service, so Airfrance’s offer is in-line with the industry norm on this.<\/p>\n

Airfrance is quite late to the game though in terms of offering wifi on their flights. Several of the biggest global\u00a0airlines<\/a> (i.e. Emirates, Lufthansa, American, etc), already offer wifi on a large percentage of their flights and some, particularly in Asia, offer free basic wifi access. \u00a0So it looks like Airfrance has some catching-up to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last year, Airfrance-KLM rolled-out a very limited launch of wifi on its flights – Paris.New York (Air France) and Amsterdam-Panama (KLM) at a price of 10.95 eur for one hour and 19.99 eur for connectivity for the entire flight. Presumably, the first experiment proved to be enough of a success for them to establish a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":27606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10564],"tags":[8039,8212],"class_list":["post-27604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech-2","tag-orange-en-2","tag-wifi-en-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}