The service, from Panasonic Avionics, is costly. The charge is EUR 10.95 ($14.18) per hour or EUR 19.95 ($25.84) for the entire flight regardless of class of service.
In contrast, Delta charges about $14 for a Wi-Fi day pass, although the service from Gogo is of the air-to-ground variety. And, according to a Flyertalk post, United was recently charging $14.99 for basic satellite service and $22.99 for premium service onboard a Honolulu-Tokyo flight.
The Air France-KLM trial, which will run through 2013, kicked off today with an Air France flight to New York, and a KLM flight to Panama on Boeing 777-300 aircraft.
Read full story at: http://skift.com/2013/05/29/air-france-and-klm-launch-wi-fi-by-the-hour-or-flight/
