Qantas starts international wifi

[moa999]

EBQ out of SYD after 11 days, so put it on hump watch.

Hump watch - QPD, ZNE*, ZNH*, EBQ
In maint - ZNF (HKG),
* Highly likely complete

 

[BrianQQ]

(Excluding the AY aircraft both wet and dry (QPK L) which have a bump but afaik the wrong antenna).

Late reply, but yes I think AY uses Panasonic, not Viasat.

AY uses ViaSat KA, as posted by below.

 

[oz_mark]

Late reply, but yes I think AY uses Panasonic, not Viasat.

AY uses Viasat Ka band.

 

[BrianQQ]

AY uses Viasat Ka band.

Oop- never mind. Might have got things mixed up ;3;

 

[moa999]

Late reply, but yes I think AY uses Panasonic, not Viasat.

AY uses ViaSat KA, as posted by below.

This article suggests Panasonic Ku band for Finnair.

Finnair to begin Wi-Fi installation on A330s this year

Finnair has announced that it will be bringing Wi-Fi to its A330 aircraft for long-haul flights, with the installation to be finished by May 2017.

www.futuretravelexperience.com

 

[BrianQQ]

This article suggests Panasonic Ku band for Finnair.

Finnair to begin Wi-Fi installation on A330s this year

Finnair has announced that it will be bringing Wi-Fi to its A330 aircraft for long-haul flights, with the installation to be finished by May 2017.

www.futuretravelexperience.com

Thought so. I vaguely remember trying to login to the AY portal, greeted with a Panasonic page.

 

[#flying]

EBQ out of SYD after 11 days, so put it on hump watch.

Hump watch - QPD, ZNE*, ZNH*, EBQ
In maint - ZNF (HKG),
* Highly likely complete

Flew EBQ today. Confirm still no hump and no inflight wifi.

 

[Daver6]

On QF66 on Tuesday (A332). Informed it had internet while over South Africa and then again hitting Australia. Internet was unavailable for the entire flight though.

 

[moa999]

QPD also without hump per YT OzPlanes on QF127 today.

 

[moa999]

Summary thus

All 220s
All 737s - bar the ex-SQ XZQ R S T that will enter service soonish
All 321 XLRs
14/ 16 332s - all bar EBP Q
5/ 10 333s - QPF G H I J
6/ 13 787s - ZNE F G H J K
0 / 10 380s - yet to commence

ZNE/F/H yet to be visually confirmed

 

[milehighclub]

6/ 13 787s - ZNE F G H J K

Only 4 - E/J/K and G just entered service. F is in HKG now getting it installed.

 

[moa999]

Only 4 - E/J/K and G just entered service. F is in HKG now getting it installed.

So ZNH wasn't fitted during its 15-24 Feb stay in HKG?

 

[NZflygirl]

A random observation. It may have been EBV, I don't recall but was an A330 SYD-AKL possibly Jan? that I think then was rostered onto AKL-PER-JNB?? My app said there was no wifi but I was shocked to see the wifi hump and was hopeful there was wifi. Anyway, there was no wifi. On discussion with crew they were informed the wifi had been switched off by the flight engineers. At a guess it's maybe because there's no/barely any coverage with viasat on the AKL-PER-JNB route? Mainly the PER-JNB sector. The coverage map there looks to be coverage for AKL-PER but might depend how far south they fly. So even though it has the wifi hump, I don't think I would be expecting it on the AKL-PER-JNB sectors. I don't know whether it was switched off by the Brisbane?? flight engineers or the Sydney ones prior to its flight across the Tasman, but I'm guessing there aren't any people in Auckland or in Perth maybe to turn the wifi off?? Hence they might turn it off in the Australian bases where they have the staff who can do this?

I have a 789 tomorrow but it looks not to be installed with wifi I could really do with it on that flight but will work on some other stuff instead I guess. Maybe I should have flown a 737

 

[milehighclub]

So ZNH wasn't fitted during its 15-24 Feb stay in HKG?

I was just going off the brief we get - someone might need to update it! If it has been in HKG that long then yes, I'd imagine H then is part of the list.