{"id":21442,"date":"2012-09-26T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T13:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/singapore-airlines-officially-launches-in-flight-wi-fi-and-mobile-services-3\/"},"modified":"2012-09-26T13:11:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T13:11:00","slug":"singapore-airlines-officially-launches-in-flight-wi-fi-and-mobile-services-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2012\/09\/singapore-airlines-officially-launches-in-flight-wi-fi-and-mobile-services-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore Airlines officially launches in-flight Wi-Fi and mobile services"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ausbt.com.au\/photos\/view\/maxsize:640,480\/4fecb47d00e8408284bb1993767f2254-delta-777-business-elite-seat-laptop-inflight-wifi-passenger--delta-pr.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ausbt.com.au\/photos\/view\/maxsize:640,480\/4fecb47d00e8408284bb1993767f2254-delta-777-business-elite-seat-laptop-inflight-wifi-passenger--delta-pr.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Singapore Airlines has fitted 14 of its aircraft, used on its longest  international routes, with in-flight connectivity for passengers who  wish to use their smartphones and other devices.  It&#8217;s great news if  you&#8217;re the type that wants to constantly stay connected over long  distances, but will it be great for others if phone calls are permitted? <\/p>\n<p>Singapore Airlines has installed Wi-Fi service provided by  OnAir on its A340-500 aircraft used between Singapore and Newark and Los  Angeles.  The airline will continue to roll out the technology to  additional long-haul aircraft including the A380 and Boeing 777-300ER  over the next couple of years, according to an airline press release.    Singapore Airlines&#8217; venture into in-flight Wi-Fi includes a hint that  in-flight calls would be allowed for mobile phone users, at least in  some markets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iapa.com\/index.cfm\/travel\/blog.article\/blog\/community\/art\/Singapore-Airlines-officially-launches-inflight-WiFi-and-mobile-services?C=1\" target=\"_blank\">Read Full Story <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore Airlines has fitted 14 of its aircraft, used on its longest international routes, with in-flight connectivity for passengers who wish to use their smartphones and other devices. It&#8217;s great news if you&#8217;re the type that wants to constantly stay connected over long distances, but will it be great for others if phone calls are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[289],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-singapore-airlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}