JetBlue Moves Forward With All-Broadband Fleet and Amazon Prime Streaming
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Somebody has to pay the bill for all that Wi-Fi power, but JetBlue has found it more profitable to give big corporations the partnership incentives they need to help fund the Fly-Fi service, rather than pick at passengers’ pockets for nickels and dimes.
JetBlue has announced that passengers will soon find its high-speed Fly-Fi Wi-Fi connections, offering speeds up to 20 mbps per device, on every flight.
The announcement comes as the airline completes Fly-Fi service installation on all Airbus A320 and A321 aircraft. It precedes the launch of JetBlue’s Amazon Prime Instant Video service this November.
The airline has also completed installation of broadband on two of its E190s. The full E190 fleet will offer Fly-Fi by fall 2016, and the first Fly-Fi-enabled Embraer E190 made had its inaugural flight this week.
Skift spoke with Jamie Perry, vice president of brand and product development, about increasing compe
