So, you’ve got a solid four hours in the air and your airplane is all hooked up with In-flight WiFi. What are you going to do? Survey says: aimlessly surf the web!
Time spent flying is usually considered wastedhours spent staring out the window, hours spent filling in the crossword puzzle in the back of the airline magazine, hours spent bitterly watching some movie you never wanted to see anyhow…but WiFi was supposed to change all that! Finally, with WiFi access in the sky, travelers could keep up with work, catch up on the news or handle internet errands.
Guess what? According to the latest infographic on in-flight web use from Gogo, the #1 activity for in-flight WiFi users is still surfing the web wasting time! Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Frankly we’re surprised “social networking” ranks fourth, since the first order of business for us (after logging into WiFi), is to brag on Facebook & Twitter about how we’re on in-flight WiFi, usually followed by an Instagram of the Earth below.
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