14 DAY TRIAL // Quantas is preparing to offer its clients full Wi-Fi services on flights. The revolutionary service is going to be available on the A380 planes, for all the classes, which is surely a surprise in the industry. This improvement comes shortly after the company decided to replace the cabins with the "premium economy" ones, retro stylish, which support laptop power. Quantas is the name and call sign of the national airline of Australia. It is the world's oldest continuously running airline and it's the 20th largest airline in the world.
The name was originally "QANTAS", an acronym for "Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services". The company is based in Sydney, New South Wales and it is Australia's largest airline. It is traded on the Australian Securities Exchange as ASX: QAN.
The company announced the economy seats would feature USB and RJ45 ports. The pricing and the availability details are unknown for the time being, but I expect it to be also "premium" one, though cheap enough to allow all the passengers to surf the web from high above.
According to PC Mag, Qantas marketing director John Borghetti confirmed: "Customers in every cabin will also be able to remain connected throughout their flight with wireless connectivity, in-seat laptop power, USB and RJ45 ports allowing them to surf the Internet or send and receive emails directly from their seat or personal laptop."
Moreover, the key elements of the Quantas Airbus A380 entertainment system include some really cool wide screen monitors in all the cabins, with digital picture and remarkable sound quality, as the company claims. There are also some lonely Planet destinations and arrivals guides, language tutorials, Online duty free shopping, the possibility of moving maps, text news and weather, an "intuitive state-of-the-art" graphic user interface allowing customers to easily navigate through entertainment options or use the in-seat communications and Wireless connectivity throughout the aircraft. Not to mention there's going to be an external camera giving a pilot's eye view of take-off, landing and cruising.
The retrofitted 747-400s are expected to launch into service from February 2008 onwards. The A380s take off later, in August 2008.
Until then, just try to play some SUDOKU or just sleep!
