Ubiquitous WiFi is of the benefits of flying on American's new 737-800s, especially on 4-hour flights between the West Coast and Chicago. And early-morning flights have a large proportion of business travelers. So imagine the collective despair of all the laptop-toting worker bees on my flight this morning when the entire entertainment system (which includes WiFi) was dark and inert.
Then, suddenly, the entertainment system rose like Frankenstein's monster and a wild hope leapt into our hearts.
Yes! We can post to Facebook from this airplane.
Oh, and we can work on our PowerPoint presentations, too. Yay.