The mile-high club
November 9th, 2006
Here’s my obligatory first post from a 747-400 cruising at 10,000 meters above Europe. I’m on Lufthansa enroute to Dubai for business.
If airline choices of equipment are a proxy for a location’s desireability, then San Francisco had better look to its laurels. The first leg of my trip, SFO to Frankfurt, was on a slightly tatty Lufthansa jumbo jet. I had heard about Lufthansa sticking with Boeing Connexion when most other airlines were abandoning it. And I was looking forward to trying out the service.
But from the self-proclaimed epicenter of the technology world there was no FlyNet. And in the Lufthansa lounge in Frankfurt, the Vodafone WiFi charges were so ridiculous that I checked my email with my BlackBerry instead of powering up my laptop. Lo and behold, however, the Frankfurt-Dubai flight is on what seems a nearly new 747 with, ta da, FlyNet. It’s wonderful (particularly since Lufthansa has a decidedly below-standard range of movies to watch). Every plane should have this.