Business travelers refuse to pay airlines for Wifi - Business Travel - Portfolio.com

I scream, you scream, we all scream for in-flight Internet. And a few domestic airlines are rushing to provide the sky-high WiFi service we demand. There's just one problem: We don't want to pay for it. Not even a little bit.

Almost 18 months after they first began wiring planes for WiFi, carriers have outfitted around 600 domestic aircraft with one of the two existing flavors of airborne Internet. But they're right back where Boeing and a passel of international airlines were in 2003: They've built it, but no one is coming. Or, to be more precise, very few passengers are putting their money where their Internet appetite is...