Six Miles High
I decided to come home a little early from my trip, so I got up at 4:00 this morning, caught an early train from Amersfoot to Schiphol airport (in Amsterdam), and re-booked my flight. After a connection through Copenhagen, I’m on the SAS flight to Seattle, using the broadband wireless connection they now provide on all international flights. It’s pretty cool, but the damn power plug doesn’t seem to work and my battery’s going dead, so I better click Save fast! Here goes …
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on December 9, 2005 at 12:40 pm Doug wrote:
Well, I finally got the power to work reliably (by mashing the plug into the jack with much force and re-doing that occasionally when it fell loose), but the wireless thing never worked again for the rest of the flight. I kept getting an error message about “network is temporarily unavailable” and so did another guy sitting near me. Quite frustrating, since I paid $30 for 10 hours of service and only got about 5 minutes out of it.
SAS’s customer service will get a charming email from me later today, complete with the screen shots of their error messages I captured. I may not be able to get a free flight out of it, but at least a credit for wireless access on a future flight would be nice.
Meanwhile, Rob is on that same flight today, and he has sent me over 40 emails (mostly S+ appointments for our upcoming workshop) in the last hour. It always rocks for him, and the one time I tried it nothing worked. Man, is it me?
on June 29, 2008 at 1:07 pm The return of in-flight wireless? | Doug’s World wrote:
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