{"id":6882,"date":"2014-11-16T08:47:56","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T16:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=6882"},"modified":"2014-11-16T08:47:56","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T16:47:56","slug":"airlines-wireless-fees-1171-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=6882","title":{"rendered":"Airline&#8217;s Wireless Fees: $1,171.46"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/singaporeairlines.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve dabbled with in-flight Wi-Fi before. On a 4-hour, cross-country haul I forked over $10 (or something around there) so that I could enjoy the Internet aloft. Many airlines offer this service, but apparently there are some surcharges with some airlines that you really need to look out for!<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nAccording to the article, the $1,171.46 charges were for many page views, which the victim claims were just email. Okay. But he also claims to have uploaded a 4MB PowerPoint presentation.<\/p>\n<p>Couldn&#8217;t that have waited?<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, check those fees! Read the wee li&#8217;l card in the seatback pocket in front of you. Weigh whether your email is that important that you&#8217;re willing to fork over what&#8217;s effectively a years&#8217; worth of Internet charges during one intercontinental flight. I mean, sheesh!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geek.com\/news\/airline-charges-passenger-1200-for-checking-emails-during-flight-1609529\/\" target=\"_blank\">Geek.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geek.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wambooli-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6883,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6882\/revisions\/6883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}