We just took a Cebu Pacific flight from Manila to Taiwan this evening to attend the annual Computex exhibition in Taipei.
We already knew and reported about Cebu Pacific rolling out in-flight WiFi on some of their international flights but this is the first time we were able to try it out.
The service is offered by OnAir which we already tried before in another flight (Delta Airlines).
The WiFi service is based on bandwidth allocation and costs $5 for 25MB and $10 for 50MB. Payment is via credit card.
We tried it to see how fast the WiFi was and been getting around 1Mbps (and sometimes even lower) which is quite slow.
I hope the Internet feature for Cebu Pacific should be disabled during Take off and Landing. Those NTSB guys really do mean business! Should this feature would be the cause of frequent plane crashes…..
I am guessing this is using satellite, same if you use internet in a cruise ship.