Free Wifi at Manchester Boston Regional Airport
I'm sitting at gate 14 at the Manchester airport, waiting for my flight to Las Vegas and the Blogworld and New Media expo. After checking emails on my spanking new iPhone I popped open my laptop and to my surprise Manchester airport offers free wifi! (I guess it's to be expected in the Live Free or Die state.)
It got me thinking about wifi, and how some establishments offer it and others don't. When is it a good business decision to offer free wifi to your patrons? I notice some coffee shops give it away for free, others it's free for people who are actually buying something, and other places make you pay for it.
At Boston's Logan airport wifi costs $10/day. Since that's about $8 less than a tuna sandwich at Logan, it's relatively not a bad deal.
Manchester Boston Regional airport has little incentive to give wifi away for free. After all, the tuna sandwiches here are like $12. It's not like I can go anywhere else for wifi, and I am not going to change airports to get free wifi.
Maybe it's to make up for long security lines (which I've never experienced at Manchester) or the fact I have to take off my shoes before boarding a plane.
Maybe it's like heat, or cooling, or a comfy seat, and it's just something that the good folks here at Manchester feel that should be part of the price of a ticket. (The seats here are really comfortable, and they don't even have those annoying arm rests between them, so you can sack out if there's room.)
Maybe it's to get business bloggers spreading the good word that Manchester airport rocks, and if you're going to fly into northern New England you might want to make Manchester your arrival point, even if it's not the closest airport.
In any case, it makes this blogger's life that much easier. Now, if they could just add more outlets for us laptop jockeys.
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