” A twenty-minute call could cost as much as your ticket” – Simon Calder, travel editor The Independent.
“….calls to and from commercial transport – ships or aircraft – are uncapped, because the capital and running costs tend to be much higher.
Ryanair’s inflight phone service will be operated by OnAir, a joint-venture communications company owned by Airbus and the airlines’ telecom provider, Sita. OnAir will charge the passenger’s mobile network a wholesale rate of between £2 and £3 per minute. (Of that, less than £1 is expected to go to Ryanair.) “
Former BBC journalist and manager in Belfast, Manchester and London, Editor Spolight; Political Editor BBC NI; Current Affairs Commissioning editor BBC Radio 4; Editor Political and Parliamentary Programmes, BBC Westminster; former London Editor Belfast Telegraph. Hon Senior Research Fellow, The Constitution Unit, Univ Coll. London
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