Delta Airlines to Offer Wi-Fi on Domestic Flights -Woopdeedoo!

In keeping with the “Lame Ass News Week” theme, here’s another little interesting news nugget that was reported in Yahoo News today.

Delta Air Lines, Inc. will be offering broadband wireless Internet access on its entire domestic fleet by the middle of 2009. Awesome!

But of course, don’t expect that service to be free (what the hell were YOU thinking?). A flat fee of $9.95 will be charged on flights of three hours or less, and $12.95 on flights of more than three hours.

So now, not only will passengers be treated to paying fees for bringing clothes other than the ones on their backs on board, paying fees for choosing who they want to sit next to when their plane is sitting on the runway for 3 hours, paying fees to consume a miniature can of soda and bag of peanuts, and paying fees for losing their own luggage and taking a crap in the broom closets airlines like to call lavatories (soon to come, I’m sure), they will now also need to pony up the dough for using Wi-Fi. Sweet. Where do I sign up?

I just recently flew Spirit Airlines to Chicago and I couldn’t get over all of the stupid fees they were charging. I really felt duped. What I thought was a round-trip deal for $189 turned out to be a round-trip ass whoopin’ for $270. I wish they would’ve just disclosed this amount up front and I would’ve been fine with it.

Hey Spirit – next time you want to F*ck me up the ass with your sneaky fees, buy me dinner first.