CONNEXION, Boeing”s technically successful high-speed broadband
communications system, is to be phased out. Boeing says that the
market has not materialised in the way it expected, meaning that it
can”t see a profit at the end of the day. The high-speed wireless
internet system is currently offered on more than 180 routes daily
worldwide by a number of airlines including Air China, ANA, Asiana,
El Al, Etihad, Singapore and SAS. Lufthansa, another operator, is
clearly miffed, reports indicating that the service has been well
received by customers, with as many as 40 people using the service at
one time on long haul flights. The client airlines are thought to be
looking at alternative suppliers. Your editor was one of the first to
try the system on a Lufthansa flight in 2004 (see left).
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