Emirates airline uses Wi-Fi to connect to Tenzing service: Tenzing had hoped to make Emirates the first Wi-Fi equipped airline to offer Internet access, but Lufthansa and Boeing beat them by a few weeks. However, Emirates is the first airline to use Wi-Fi that was built into the plane during construction. The Airbus A345 was delivered in December with Wi-Fi ready to go. The equipped planes fly from Dubai to New York, Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland, and Christchurch.
Tenzing's current generation of service is quite slow compared to Boeings: a maximum of 128 Kbps. Emirates is using their email-only service as well, which provides access just through a proxy to email accounts. Tenzing's next-generation service will increase to about 450 to 900 Kbps in both directions, or even faster depending on an airline's choice of options; it's due in 2005.