Guess what? Flyers prefer sleeping to surfing

Thursday, 04 Dec, 2012 0

Qantas has cited a lack of customer interest for dumping its plans to provide wireless Internet access on flights.

The trial on six of the airline’s A380 superjumbos on long-haul flights to London and across the Pacific to Los Angeles lasted nine months.

A spokesman told The Age that customer take-up of the wi-fi service on flights during the trial, which ended last month, was extremely low. He also said providing the service was expensive.

Qantas charged between AUD12.90 and AUD39.90 for its data packages on board. The average take-up of the service was less than 5%, according to the airline.

The spokesman also said that, as most of the airline’s A380 services operated at night, passengers preferred sleeping to surfing the web.



 

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