Airplane Wi-Fi is terrible. Overpriced, slow and unreliable. Jet Blue is hoping to change that with their upcoming service, Fly-Fi. For gamers, that means playing multiplayer games in the sky may not be quite so terrible as it is today. Here's how the company describes its new service, which still needs approval from the US government.
"Most fliers probably agree that in-flight Wi-Fi is a cool concept, but those who have tried it don’t love the options they have today. Our service promises to up the experience to satisfy the increasing appetite for connectivity across multiple devices. Fly-Fi will be smarter, newer, faster and better than anything on the market today for commercial aviation. The up-side is, you’ll soon be able to experience Wi-Fi connections that do more than just frustrate you, the down-side is that because it’s a completely new way to deliver connectivity, there’s still a lot of testing to be done before the FAA, signs off, and our customers start seeing it on their JetBlue flights."
Details like price, availability and connection speed remain scant. We'll update you as soon as we know.