Originally Posted by hoover

this no wifi is getting to be a safety issue.
Was coming into DEN the other night. Massive storms and reroutes and new arrivals constantly. We couldn't get the big picture of what arrival etc would work better because no wifi. So we were at the mercy of DEN center and radar.
in a fuel situation and the indecision of center etc we had bo idea if their plan would work and thusly couldn't be confident in our diversion plan.
it was getting to the point of just diverting so we knew we could make it to the alternate before we had no options.
With wifi satellite radar we would have had a way better idea of what's going on.