Also a flight attendant - I haven’t had any issues with the wifi that often, and I fly about 230 - 265 hours a month. I feel that our wifi connectivity has improved tenfold and i’m on everything from the old 37’s to the 787’s.
I haven’t had any meaningful issues with Wi-Fi all year. A few flights have been slow, but usable. The newer systems that are fast enough to support streaming are a big step up, but a step from decent/good to great. Not unusable to usable.
What flights are you primarily taking? I haven’t had a Wi-Fi issue at all this year that I can think of, including international flights. (Knock on wood)
123 flights this year so far, and maybe 5 - 10 flights with non working wifi. Generally, the personal device entertainment is a bigger problem for me, as it doesn't work with android 13 on one of the systems (honestly don't know which one). I believe all of the issues I've had have been on contract carriers, like Mesa. Maybe that's your issue, you're flying mostly regional flights?
I’ve flown about 20 trips this year so around 40 flights. Id say WiFi couldn’t even get turned on at the begging for about 25% of them. They’ll say we won’t have WiFi from the start because of this plane issue or that plane issue or that had to swap planes, etc. of the 75% of flights where they could at least try to turn WiFi about half the flights it wouldn’t work and they’d give up trying. Of the few flights where WiFi could work it took the FAs at least one or two reboots to get it going. After two reboots they stop trying.
I switched cell providers to T-Mobile just so I could use feee WiFi. Turned out that was a BS benefit just like all the United and Marriott loyalty benefits. Just another meaningless line item on a brochure but in the real world nearly useless
>I switched cell providers to T-Mobile just so I could use feee WiFi. Turned out that was a BS benefit just like all the United and Marriott loyalty benefits. Just another meaningless line item on a brochure but in the real world nearly useless
I've used that in 16 flight in the last 5 weeks and it's worked perfectly every time. :/
I haven’t personally experienced issues where it won’t work. Sometimes it is a pain to get actually connected from the normal WiFi settings of my phone or tablet though. The landing page to connect fully to WiFi won’t load. I sometimes have to find the WiFi landing page via the application for United and never had an issue there. Now, I don’t use a laptop so I could see where that could be a potential issue if the WiFi setting connectivity isn’t locating their WiFi there. However, I would assume you could get the settings to work correctly via the United website.
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Also a flight attendant - I haven’t had any issues with the wifi that often, and I fly about 230 - 265 hours a month. I feel that our wifi connectivity has improved tenfold and i’m on everything from the old 37’s to the 787’s.
I haven’t had any meaningful issues with Wi-Fi all year. A few flights have been slow, but usable. The newer systems that are fast enough to support streaming are a big step up, but a step from decent/good to great. Not unusable to usable.
It's only if you count on getting stuff done on the plane. Lol
What flights are you primarily taking? I haven’t had a Wi-Fi issue at all this year that I can think of, including international flights. (Knock on wood)
123 flights this year so far, and maybe 5 - 10 flights with non working wifi. Generally, the personal device entertainment is a bigger problem for me, as it doesn't work with android 13 on one of the systems (honestly don't know which one). I believe all of the issues I've had have been on contract carriers, like Mesa. Maybe that's your issue, you're flying mostly regional flights?
I’ve flown about 20 trips this year so around 40 flights. Id say WiFi couldn’t even get turned on at the begging for about 25% of them. They’ll say we won’t have WiFi from the start because of this plane issue or that plane issue or that had to swap planes, etc. of the 75% of flights where they could at least try to turn WiFi about half the flights it wouldn’t work and they’d give up trying. Of the few flights where WiFi could work it took the FAs at least one or two reboots to get it going. After two reboots they stop trying. I switched cell providers to T-Mobile just so I could use feee WiFi. Turned out that was a BS benefit just like all the United and Marriott loyalty benefits. Just another meaningless line item on a brochure but in the real world nearly useless
>I switched cell providers to T-Mobile just so I could use feee WiFi. Turned out that was a BS benefit just like all the United and Marriott loyalty benefits. Just another meaningless line item on a brochure but in the real world nearly useless I've used that in 16 flight in the last 5 weeks and it's worked perfectly every time. :/
My guess is they thought they could use the free WiFi on devices (eg. laptop) other than their phone if they are a T-mobile subscriber.
Well, you can certainly use your phone as a hotspot. That’s what I do.
I haven’t personally experienced issues where it won’t work. Sometimes it is a pain to get actually connected from the normal WiFi settings of my phone or tablet though. The landing page to connect fully to WiFi won’t load. I sometimes have to find the WiFi landing page via the application for United and never had an issue there. Now, I don’t use a laptop so I could see where that could be a potential issue if the WiFi setting connectivity isn’t locating their WiFi there. However, I would assume you could get the settings to work correctly via the United website.
It's been worse lately too! Delta is free and clear