{"id":4666,"date":"2016-02-23T08:23:14","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T22:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=4666"},"modified":"2016-02-23T08:23:14","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T22:23:14","slug":"qantas-to-launch-in-flight-wi-fi-late-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/qantas-to-launch-in-flight-wi-fi-late-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Qantas to launch in-flight wi-fi late in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/27131917\/open-graph.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Qantas [&#8230;]\u00a0confirmed today that it will partner with ViaSat to develop an industry-leading wi-fi service across its domestic fleet, harnessing the nbn\u2122 network.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The nbn network opens up the potential for fast, high-quality connectivity that will enable Qantas customers to stream live sports, movies and TV shows on board. On-board trials are expected to begin in late 2016 with a full roll-out across domestic passenger services planned from early 2017.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In an announcement that looks like it came out of 2005, Qantas has finally decided to join us in 2016 with the advent of in-flight wi-fi.<\/p>\n<p>This comes off the back of a 234% rise in Qantas&#8217; quarterly profits, raking in a mere $688 million.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like all those <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/business\/aviation\/qantas-to-slash-5000-jobs-as-it-posts-252m-first-half-loss\/story-e6frg95x-1226839160203\" target=\"_blank\">staff layoffs<\/a>\u00a0are really paying out hey <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alan_Joyce_(executive)\" target=\"_blank\">Alan<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"source-link\"><span class=\"source-link\">Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.qantasnewsroom.com.au\/media-releases\/qantas-first-half-financial-result\/\">QANTAS FIRST-HALF FINANCIAL RESULT &#8211; Qantas News Room<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Qantas [&#8230;]\u00a0confirmed today that it will partner with ViaSat to develop an industry-leading wi-fi service across its domestic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}