AirAsia to Provide Wi-Fi on-board Soon

Posted by Unknown on Saturday, August 16, 2014 with No comments
Rejoice Malaysian! Finally, Malaysia will have its very own first airlines to provide Wi-Fi services on-board in the near future.
AirAsia - World's Best Low-cost Airline to Provide an In-flight Wi-Fi Service in the Near Future
On the 13th of August 2014 (Wednesday), AirAsia conducted their very first experimental flight with the Wi-Fi service in-flight and reported that it was a major success, which was shared live using Instagram and Twitter from the flight itself. (Sources can be found here)

"It's a wrap! Tested LINE, WeChat & WhatsApp for our Wi-Fi onboard trial! Thanks AirAsia Allstars for your participation!," AirAsia tweeted live from the trial flight.


A group of 120 AirAsia Allstar volunteers were selected to board the test flight, and the results are promising! The group reported that the 3 most popular messaging app-namely LINE, Whatsapp and WeChat are working flawlessly. 
One of the Flight Attendants helping Passengers to Connect the the Wi-Fi Service

 An important quote from AirAsia group chief executive officer Tan Sri Tony Fernandes after the success of the test flight revealed that AirAsia planned to release this awesome feature for all AirAsia aircraft at the end of this year. Until then, AirAsia will be giving out 60 guests the opportunity to test out the new feature in each flight, as part of the "Free User Test" program for the next 2 months!
Though we believe at the end of this year, AirAsia might not be the only airlines in Malaysia to provide in-flight Wi-Fi service.

A teaser from Malindo Air that says Wi-Fi onboard are Coming Soon

Just hours after the announcement of the successful Wi-Fi in-flight tests report from AirAsia, Malindo Air posted a teaser picture on its Facebook page to show that they will be implementing the service in their aircraft too.  

As an overall, it will be a year of improvement for the airlines service in Malaysia and another huge step towards technological advancement, though we from Stedgeport still thinks that Malaysia approachment towards technological advancement is sill at a crawling rate.

Worldwide Airlines that are equipped with In-flight Wi-Fi

In-flight Wi-Fi had been a thing since 2007, with Qantas Airlines being the pioneer of implementing the system, and Malaysia only will have it by the end of this year, which leave us a 7 year gap.

Therefore, it is up to us Malaysian Youth to help the country to build itself in order for us to really achieve the Vision 2020.

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Edited by: Frelex94