Mile-High Internet Access Remains a Flight of Fancy

News from Portfolio.com Also on Portfolio Did the RIAA Just Kill Muxtape? The Economy? The Worst Is Yet to Come How (Not) to Unload a $139 Million Mansion in a Down Market Subscribe to Portfolio magazine The long and winding road to in-flight internet service led to a dead end at London's Heathrow Airport back in February 2003. About a month after Lufthansa first tested Boeing's satellite-based internet technology, Boeing herded a gaggle of media types onto a similarly equipped British Airways transatlantic flight. Stan Deal, charged with selling Boeing's Connexion internet service to airlines and travelers, was ecstatic. The test went swimmingly, and everyone on board had surfed the Web without a glitch. When we landed, however, there was a shortage of Boeing-supplied limos. Deal made a beeline for the taxis, but I suggested... [read full story]