No one can be bothered to pay those pesky airline WiFi fees. Some of them can range upwards of $15-20 for a two hour flight, for some subpar WiFi that can’t even load the simplest of web pages. This lifehack has a decent probability of working, but slowly is becoming blocked as airlines update their inflight wifi (such as American Airlines with ViaSat recently)
Prerequisites:
- Ensure the flight you are on offers WiFi, and find out the provider of that WiFi (Gogo, ViaSat, etc.)
- Ensure you do not have the native app for your airline downloaded (No American App, United, Southwest, etc)
How-To:
- Once above 10,000 feet and WiFi is activated, connect to the inflight wifi and open up a browser or wait for the login splash page.
- Often, these pages will have other free flight information besides just browsing packages- such as flight information, free entertainment, news, and more
- To access most of these features, the airlines require you download their native application for best functionality
- If you do not have it, it gives you the option to download this and redirects you to the app store
- From here, just back out and you should start receiving limited WiFi access (I’ve noted that text messages/WhatsApp/other messaging platforms work)
I’ve had this last me from the whole flight to only a few minutes, but if you get lucky, it may stick and you can enjoy painless wifi on those long, grueling flights 🙂
Thanks ya’ll for reading and hope this works
