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I was recently disappointed by the huge price hike of gogo in flight. It's been $10 for a flight for quite some time now which I'd felt was perfectly fair considering the quality. On my recent flight to NYC for work and play it was $10 per hour which essentially amounts to a 5x increase. I grabbed it for 2 hours and it was just as bad as always. Fine for email and Facebook but unideal for pushing a significant commit on a large git repo.

On the way home I just didn't bother since I'd spent my whole air-fi budget at the beginning of the trip.

Just seemed like an enormous and unfair price hike for a product that hasn't improved whatsoever.

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They have a $14 all day pass, which is what I get, since I usually have to change planes when going to the west coast.

http://www.gogoair.com/gogo/listAllProducts.do

Interesting. My memory is a bit hazy, but I assume their all-day pass either wasn't available, easy to find, or that price. I only say that because I've purchased an all-day pass for a multi-leg flight in the past, so there must have been good reason for me not to use it this time. Or it could be as simple as grogginess from catching a 7am flight.

FWIW, they've changed the menu - there's still a "Flight Pass" that's within a dollar or two of what it's always been, but you have to do some more hunting to find it. It's annoying, because every flight now I spend a few minutes paranoid that they removed the option that I'm looking for.

I was recently disappointed by the huge price hike of gogo in flight

Agreed. If I recall correctly, the all-day pass was close to $30 when purchased while on the plane. By going to their website ahead of time (i.e. while not using gogo's network), their all-day pass is $14.

On a recent flight, I noticed they were asking $10/hr on my laptop but $6/hr on my phone, but they allow you to switch devices (as long as you only use one at a time) so I just bought it on the phone and used it on the laptop (you could also change your headers instead but I think that's technically "hacking"). It was also 3 hours for the price of 2, so it worked out as $12 for 3 hours which seemed almost reasonable.

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