About 10 sites, such as CNN, finance, sport and travel sites will be selected and their content will be refreshed each time the aircraft is on the ground. Thus the content will be up to three and a half hours old on a Hong Kong-Japan flight and up to 11 hours old on European flights. Users will have to subscribe to Tenzing and they will have two options, Ms Chan said. Frequent flyers may choose to take out a monthly subscription to Tenzing. Cathay has not worked a schedule of charges yet.
Price is an issue.
I think the market will regulate itself. I sincerely believe it will be affordable. But Cathay rules out any censorship of content. Tenzing's second firm customer after Cathay, Virgin Atlantic, will introduce inflight e-mail and Internet services late this year.