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Rob Pegoraro

Weekly output: American Airlines WiFi, Archer Aviation eVTOL air taxis, Google display-ads antitrust violations

During one of the busier travel weeks of the year (happy Easter, everyone), it only seems right for two of my posts for clients to involve commercial aviation. Airlines also figure in my own schedule over the coming week, because Saturday night I depart for Brazil to moderate three panels at Web Summit Rio.

In addition to the posts below, I wrote one Thursday for Patreon readers about how my attitude about taking press trips–meaning, trips subsidized by the company or organization behind the event in question–has changed over the past 10 years.

4/15/2025: Free Inflight Wi-Fi (Finally) Coming to American Airlines, PCMag

AA started this week with the least-competitive WiFi pricing of any U.S. carrier, and now it has one of the most-asterisked announcements of free WiFi among its competitors.

4/17/2025: Archer Aviation, United Airlines Tease Electric Air Taxi Hops to NYC Airports, PCMag

Spending half an hour on a Teams call with Archer’s chief commercial officer Nikhil Goel yielded details left out of the the company’s press release–as well as a questionable assurance that the Trump administration’s devotion to innovation would speed the Federal Aviation Administration’s certification of its Midnight electric vertical-take-off-and-landing aircraft.

4/17/2025: Google Guilty of ‘Willfully Anticompetitive Acts’ in Display-Ads Business, Court Finds, PCMag

A little over two years after I filed a post from a deli in Wallops Island, Va., about the Justice Department’s lawsuit alleging multiple antitrust violations by Google in its display-ads business, I covered Judge Leonie Brinkema holding for the plaintiffs on three of their five claims in a ruling that could lead to the forced divestiture of major parts of Google’s display-ads business. Since that business has done my own industry few favors in recent years, I don’t feel too sorry for Google about that possibility.

 

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Elan Head

Blade CEO Rob Wiesenthal doesn't expect to see #eVTOL air taxis flying in #NYC until late 2027 or early 2028. But eVTOL companies are actively staking their claims in the market, as evidenced by today's route announcement from #ArcherAviation and #UnitedAirlines, which I wrote about for The Air Current. #aviation #electricaviation theaircurrent.com/feed/dispatc

The Air Current · Archer, United announce New York routes as air taxi companies maneuver for positionData-driven reporting and analysis on the strategy and technology of flying.
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Hype / Aerospace News

AutoFlight and Hefei City Collaborate to Develop Urban Air Mobility with eVTOL Fleet
- By Chris Stonor

evtolinsights.com/2025/04/chin
More: hype.aero/coverage/evtol/?stor
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eVTOL Insights · China: “AutoFlight Collaborate with Hefei City to Supply Fleet of eVTOL Aircraft” - eVTOL InsightsAutoFlight and Hefei City recently signed a project collaboration agreement to develop Hefei’s urban air traffic system and to supply a fleet of AutoFlight’s eVTOL aircraft, reports a press release. This includes plans for the company’s new East China operational hub in Feixi County. Hefei is to buy multiple examples of both the cargo and
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