GIVEAWAY: Gogo 50-Session Free Wi-Fi Pass!!
I’m writing this as I fly home from Portland on an American Airlines flight using Gogo (of course). And, I’ve got a pretty awesome giveaway for a lucky winner.
It’s a card that entitles you to 50 free sessions of Gogo inflight internet. From my reading of it, you can use it both on flights in the domestic US and internationally on any plane that Gogo provides service for.
Gogo launched on American Airlines in 2008 and I recall receiving a free pass to try it out shortly after launch. I was immediately hooked. As soon as they announced monthly passes, I signed up. 7 years later, I’m still a monthly pass customer. American Airlines was more aggressive that most airlines (Delta was one notable exception) in outfitting their fleet with Wi-Fi, and it changed how I fly.
Before Gogo, I would work offline on my computer, sorting e-mails and typing replies only to have to wait until I landed and found connectivity to send all those e-mails. And, I was obviously out of touch with work and home while up in the air, a place I find myself quite a bit.
Now? It’s a pretty endless list. I can send and receive e-mails in real-time. That’s probably the biggest benefit for me personally, not getting inundated with action items when I land after a long flight. I can also reach out to my family via text and check in. My wife can send me pics of what the kids are up to, making me feel just a bit closer to home. More recently, I’ve been able to watch movies on longer flights when I need to tune out. All good things.
Thanks to the generosity of the folks at Gogo, one of you will get to enjoy Gogo 50 times for free! That’s a whole lot of bandwidth! How do you enter? Easy, just leave a comment here. You can enter up to 3 times a day, commenting on each of 3 subjects:
- An upcoming trip that you want to use Gogo on.
- Trips where Gogo has come in handy for you in the past.
- Just the general “great prize, I want to win” sort of thing.
You can enter until 11:59pm Friday, October 2nd. I reserve the right to exclude your entries if you spam the thread and all decisions made by me are final.
Good luck! I’ll be reviewing my short time at APEX and some announcements Gogo made that expand their reach over the next few days as well.
Gogo will be nice to have for my flight to see in laws for thanksgiving 🙂
want to use it on my way from chicago to fort lauderdale next month. we are traveling around Florida for 2 weeks. Have used GOGO a couple of times before on american – would great to get another opportunity on my next flights
An upcoming trip that you want to use Gogo on. – Going to Chicago for the seminars
Trips where Gogo has come in handy for you in the past. -useful for when I’m on one of those US Air planes without any entertainment
Just the general “great prize, I want to win” sort of thing.- definitely useful and would love to have
Gogo has come in handy on a few occasions, most recently on my winter trip to the west coast. It was important at the time to stay connected to email as I was waiting to hear about potential job offers.
Kinda weird that you’d want us to comment on the three items in one comment. If you meant just one item in each of the three entries we are allowed daily, I think you could clarify that. In any case, here goes again 🙂
An upcoming trip that you want to use Gogo on. – Going to Chicago for the seminars
Trips where Gogo has come in handy for you in the past. -useful for when I’m on one of those US Air planes without any entertainment
Just the general “great prize, I want to win” sort of thing.- definitely useful and would love to have
Jana, sorry for any confusion. You can enter in 3 separate comments. 😉
Here is my third and final entry. It would be great to win this prize, and to share some free sessions with my wife since it seems she flies a lot more often these days than I do 🙂
Jose, happy wife, happy life!
I would love to have Gogo on my November trip to La Paz, Bolivia
I would love to have Gogo on my November trip to La Paz, Bolivia.
When would I use Gogo? … Well, I’ve been spending a lot of time on AA lately, and will be flying them home for Thanksgiving.
This would come in handy on an upcoming trip where I am meeting some people in MX. It would help me communicate with them during my flight down
This is my third entry for today. Looks like everyone else just answers one question, so I’ll just say I could use the passes.
I used Gogo last February flying to Rio for Carnival.
My first entry mistakenly was posted twice. You should delete one of them.
Would be useful on my transcon MRs!
Leaving on a flight very soon
Having Gogo allowed me to sign-up for that awesome AA EXP challenge offer a few years ago, while I was flying to LAS.
Gogo is my favorite way of helping the time to pass on a long flight.
Would be cool to win this! Never knew Gogo would offer a fifty-session pass.
gogo might be pricey, but it has come in handy when I need to answer emails or respond to a text message. Sometimes — sometimes — I can even get spotify to work. Yay for gogo getting faster!
1. An upcoming trip that you want to use Gogo on.
Flying TPA-DWF-SFO as a return trip for a wedding. Gogo would definitely help the long travel day go by more quickly!
I have a 48 hour double transcontinental trip to maintain my status on Alaska Air. Going over 9,000 miles.
Free Gogo would be amazing!!!! Thanks for the great giveaway.
2. Trips where Gogo has come in handy for you in the past.
I fly SFO-EWR for work pretty regularly. When I’m on a flight where Gogo is available, it definitely helps me stay productive from a work standpoint.
3. Just the general “great prize, I want to win” sort of thing.
This seriously would be a great prize, as staying connected online is by far the best way to pass the time on a long flight. I’m hoping one day, airlines will start offering as a benefit for those with elite status.
Ill use it when i fly to nyc soon
I don’t think my first post went through.. not trying to Spam.
I would use this on an upcoming double transcontinental trip that spans over 9,000 miles. Trying to maintain 75k status on Alaska.
using it to get work done
would be great to win and get 50 free passes
Internet me Ed before you go-go
Don’t leave me hanging on like a yo-yo
Well, funny enough, I’m flying to Portland (on Gogo right now AA1525) on one of the cheap AA fares, doing a 50 minute airport turn. I’d love to have the opportunity to use the the freebies on my upcoming BOS MR and DFW-MSY-SRQ-DFW trips. Gogo really saved my bacon two weeks ago. My husband and I own a home building comapny (I do the accounting and admin stuff), and I was off on a MR and wouldn’t you know, one of the contractors needed a pay stub. Gogo to the rescue. Five minutes of research and a quick email and problem solved! I use Gogo on almost every flight.
Yay!
Wow! Would be so excited to win this!
I find myself tempted at Gogo most of the time, but it’s getting to be too expensive
This pass could be a game-changer!
I’d love to use it on SFO-EWR flight that’s coming up in a month.
I want to win!
I would use this for my upcoming trip to Laos and Cambodia.
Gogo came to the rescue when I was flying stand-by and had to change destination cities in order to get home. I was able to pay to connect online, and reach out to a family member who was able to pick me up from the Tucson airport and drive me to Phoenix. I was able to land in Tucson with peace of mind and a ride.
I loved being able to use GoGo on my Delta flight labor-day weekend so I could do my fantasy football draft from 30k ft up!
I hereby emerge from the woodwork to identify myself as a loyal reader always looking for free stuff. 🙂
An upcoming trip that you want to use Gogo on.
We’re flying SEA-EWR on AS one week from today, on the first leg of a trip to France.
Trips where Gogo has come in handy for you in the past.
We flew EWR-SEA in early August on the final leg of a whirlwind European tour with a granddaughter (took our eldest in summer 2014, take our third-oldest March 2016 – five more to go after that trip!). We were able to e-mail her parents inflight after the pilot’s ETA announcement that we’d be arriving early enough for them to pick us up before a sister’s previously scheduled doctor’s appointment – very useful!
Just the general “great prize, I want to win” sort of thing.
It’s a great prize and Mrs. Fredd and I would love to win it, largely to be able to keep in touch with our eight wonderful – and technologically advanced – grandchildren during our travels.
ahh gogo would be great to have because the internet helps time fly by before you know it!
I’d love to use it for my 8-segment mileage run from BOS-ANC in October
An upcoming trip that you want to use Gogo on — I use GoGo on practically every flight where it’s available. Whether to work or pass the time I find it invaluable these days.
Trips where Gogo has come in handy for you in the past — Last trip DFW-LAX … Reading flyertalk, boarding area, and other blogs when I found the AA Exp Plat challenge information.
I have 5 hours of flying coming up on American and it would be so useful to be able to use internet! I am a very nervous flyer so I need things to keep me busy!!
I’ll add my third for today — Love the blog; thanks for the giveaway!!
Great blog with nice prizes! Thanks for everything Ed!
def would love to have wifi on my sfo-icn-hkg trip next Monday. eck!
I will be headed to bcn for vac so I could definitely use it to kill some time
Man would love that amt of wifi!
Would love to try this on my next SFO-NYC flight (guess it’s now EWR for united p.s.).
I’ve tried Gogo in the past on shorter trips to ORD and IAH with limited success, but I’ve heard it’s gotten better?
Hope I win! 🙂
GoGo was a huge help when I was on an overnite flight to Europe during the Super Bowl. I could track the game online and knew before taking a nap that my team had won!
Used gogo several times on flights back and forth from Charlotte to Austin to do urgent IT work, preventing a crisis
My wife and I will be scratching China off our bucket list with a trip we have planned for November. But I am fearing being out of touch for so long and having GoGo access — at least for the domestic legs and especially on the return — would give me a head start in cleaning up weeks’ worth of e-mail messages.
I love using Gogo on domestic mileage runs to be productive even while in the air!
I love using Gogo, especially on my LAX CLT flights. I mostly fly by myself and I don’t always have time to reach out to my friends so I spend a lot of time on the flights catching up with friends through iMessage or LINE.
i love gogo. I’ve always said it beats a vacation day when I travel for pleasure and just work on the plane.
1. An upcoming trip that you want to use Gogo on. – I’m going to Shanghai and Thailand in November! Would be great to go on the internet for those 14 hours..
2.Trips where Gogo has come in handy for you in the past. – I’ve never used it before, trying to save my $$$$
3.Just the general “great prize, I want to win” sort of thing. – I DO want to win!!
Upcoming Travel: Antarctica!
Used Gogo: Trip to Peru
Want to Win: I want to win!
Sure I want to win! Also thanks for your generosity!
We are heading to EWR from west coast this winter for family reunion!! We definitely need gogo wifi to keep us busy! 🙂
An upcoming trip that you want to use Gogo on. – I’m going from Seattle to Dublin this fall and I could really use GoGo service!
Trips where Gogo has come in handy for you in the past. – I had a 2 hour mid-week flight where I really needed Wifi to get some work done. Gogo in flight wifi saved my bacon on that trip!
Winning 1 GoGo would be fun, but winning 50 GoGo flights would last me a couple years!
Great giveaway, would love to win!
I’m actually on DL next week, as I needed to add a business trip onto the end of a personal trip and DL is the only carrier that flies this particular route. Would love to use Gogo on that flight!
Gogo passes would be great to have for a couple of EQP runs as I chase AA Executive Platinum
I flew DFW-SEA a couple years ago on AA on a bird equipped with Gogo and it was a LIFESAVER. This was a last minute business trip I had to take and I really needed to get work done. At the time, there is no way I would’ve been able to do what I needed in the air while on United, my primary carrier.
Will be nice to use on the way home for Thanksgiving!
I have a trip to Spain next week that would be great to try out GOGO on.
This is a great offer that you are able to give away to your readers. Thanks!
Would love to use this on our upcoming trip to Chicago!
Thanks for the opportunity!
I fly to IND on Sunday.
Wouldn’t mind winning in general though
Great prize, I want to win
Invaluable for finishing up a report that was due while I was in the air.
I have a coast to coast run coming up where it would be really nice to have.
I could use the Gogo pass on our upcoming trip to Germany.
I used Gogo this summer on a family trip to California.
A very very nice giveaway!
I’d love this because I’m just starting a new job that requires a lot of travel but as an independent consultant, I can’t just justify the cost. So I’d use this on a flight from ORD to OKC.
Gogo is awesome for work travel — when I was a practicing lawyer (and I could bill the work done!), I used it to keep working.
Gogo is good for me while I’m skipping out on work and mileage running to maintain status at the end of the year.
Just an awesome giveaway!
1. I would like to use it for my upcoming trip to the Vrigin Islands.
Would love to try Gogo on my flight to Houston for a cruise! I could get everything done before I go without my internet for a week! eek!
2. It helped me stay connected to my email and social media on my last flight.
Great prize, thanks for offering it, Ed. My wife wants me to win so she can use the pass but couldn’t be bothered to enter the giveaway herself.
3. A great addition to a flight making it a great giveaway
Me need GoGo..
My girlfriend dropped off the rental car because she had a later flight to a different destination. Data was spotty and her maps app wasn’t working so it took her a while to drop the car off, causing her to miss her flight. I used gogo to keep in touch with her and book her a flight using my points.
Oh pick me, pick me! I have never used GoGo before, it would be great to win a whole stash of them!
Never tried Gogo before so this would be awesome if I won!
Hi: I would really love Gogo for my upcoming LAX-MSY-ATL-MIA-LAX trip!
Also, I just want to thank you for giving away such a great prize.
Would love to have this for my trip to London coming next month!
This would be great for the LAX-MSP-ANC RT mileage run I have scheduled to re-qualify for Delta GM by the end of the year! Productivity can justify a mileage run, no? 😉
Gogo is really great when you’re on a plane and almost miss a deadline due to changing time zones. Lifesaver!
Really awesome prize. We take technology for granted and naturally assume that WiFi will be available to us every moment of the day, including hurtling through the air miles above the earth. There’s nothing like people having meltdowns on BA flights when they realize that they need to disconnect for a few hours!
Would love these for our next trip to New York!
I’d be pleased to win.
This would be great for my upcoming trip with my 3 yr old! Flying Delta to CVG for his Grandpa’s 60th birthday . Only time I ever used Gogo was when it first started on the Delta flights, I got a card for 1 free session to try it out. I can’t remember what year that was though. My husband uses it all the time because he travels for business.
I would love to use these to get some work done during my internship travel next semester, as well as for my first trip to Europe!
I have several upcoming flights on AA an DL that I would use these for.
Thanks 4 the giveaway
Great prize!!!!! I wanna win!!
Great prize thank you!
Thank you great initiative!
I would love to surf the web 20,000 feet up in the air
Traveling on American in November to Chicago; could use it there!
Would love to win; headed from SLC-ORD-FRA and back; opportunities to use it, I’m sure!
An upcoming trip that you want to use Gogo on: BOS-SFO. Longest Lower 48 States regularly scheduled commercial non-stop flight.
Trips where Gogo has come in handy for you in the past: Booking the remainder of your travel while already on the first flight is awesome.
Just the general “great prize, I want to win” sort of thing: Me, me!
I would use them for transcontinental flights to JFK
Can I use this on international flight?
Would be great to use these on my upcoming Delta flights to PDX and NRT.
I would like to use Gogo on our upcoming trip on AA to LAX. Have to catch Disneyland’s 60th birthday party!
Gogo has come in handy when making last-minute car reservations from the plane!
Thanks for the blog and for offering a great prize! 🙂
Would definitely come in handy for my trip at the end of October. It’s too expensive otherwise.
Appreciate the nice prize and hope to win.
Would love to win!
Could use it for our Thanksgiving trip to Europe.
I use Gogo to make last minute hotel reservations from the plane.
great contest, thanks
Gogo was great on our last flight to DC
I am treating my wife to an EWR-LAX trip nextmonth to check out the Getty Museum. She loves LA!
Thank you for your blog! It is almost always a light in a sea of negativity.
Gogo has helped me send some last minute emails that I didn’t get to send in my hotel room!
It would be so amazing to win this. Really hope the randomizer picks me!
Used Gogo last weekend, bought an all day pass for SEA-MSP-BWI. Just wish it were more reliable at times it kept dropping out.
Used gogo on our last trip to Europe
Great giveaway!
A very nice giveaway! Thanks.
I will use the Gogo pass on my trip to NYC next week.
My teenage daughter loves when I purchase a Gogo pass for her to keep in touch with friends while we are flying.
Used Gogo on my last trip to Europe
Will use Gogo on my next trip to Europe
Thanks for the generous giveaway!
I use GoGo to listen to my favorite radio programs when traveling from CT to CA on American Airlines.
I want to win because I only have one month to use my 4 remaining GOGO for iPhone passes.
I want to win because I only have one month to use my 4 remaining GOGO for iPhone passes.
great prize, I want to win and wanna go go go for long trips always connected
This rocks 🙂
Gogo for my next trips 🙂
We will be traveling to Cancun later this month during the work day and I would love to be able to get some additional work done before the margaritas start flowing!
Thanks so much for offering this giveaway! I enjoy reading your blog.
Gogo helped me out when I needed to book a car when my connecting flight to Newark was cancelled because of Katrina. I drove into the hurricane from Cleveland but couldn’t return the car for 5 days because Newark Airport was closed!
Flying to Los Angeles next month to take in Disneyland’s 60th anniversary. I never dreamed I would be able to get there so easily and fly for free with points when I was a kid!
Would love to use on the way to Aruba!
Would love to use these on our next trip to Boston!
Used gogo on a trip to SF and liked it.
Great giveaway, thanks!
I’d love to use GoGo on my upcoming flight to Dublin.
I’ve used GoGo to get work done while flying, which is a huge time saver.
Thanks for offering this contest!
Great Offer!
I’d like to use Gogo on my pre-Halloween trip to New Orleans.
I enjoyed using Gogo on a March trip to LAX from EWR.
I like Gogo because I can keep in touch via e-mail on a multi-hour flight and not have to scramble to catch up upon arrival.
Would love to win this!
The flight in Nov to BCN would be tolerable with wifi
Never had gogo in the past.
have used Gogo on previous flights to stay in touch with family, and to check company emails. Nice to not have hundreds of emails hit the inbox all at once upon landing
I would really love to use Gogo on my flight ORD-SFO. Maybe I would be able to get some work done!
I did use Gogo on a recent trip when I had forgotten a flight hold was about to expire! Thank goodness I could book the flight 5 minutes before that hold expired!
50 passes is a lot of internet! Thanks for the great giveaway!
This would be awesome for our winter trip to Kauai!
2. Used gogo on a few trips to DC
3. awesome giveaway, thank you!
Cannot wait to win! hopefully…
I used to do a lot of short hops ORD-MHK on AA. Occasionally, I’d fly MHK-DFW-ORD on the way back due to timing of flights. The biggest benefit was that I got GoGo on the DFW-ORD segments and was much more productive than usual.
I have to fly LAX-JFK next month on UA. Got myself on a p.s. flight where GoGo will be very nice for the TCON!
Have an upcoming trip between SEA-LAX that I could use it on!
Was able to use GoGo to work during my MRs between SEA-BWI/PHL
Would love to win this since it would save a TON of $$$ on in-flight Wifi!
Heading to Hawaii in 10 days. Would love to be online. Thanks again.
Where isn’t Gogo useful? It would be great to finally catch up with friends on social media during my trip to Copenhagen next month.
Headed to Europe
If the Ravens can finally win a game then maybe I can win this awesome pass! Thanks for the chance!
An upcoming trip that you want to use Gogo on:
PHX-JFK in January
Trips where Gogo has come in handy for you in the past:
JAX-ORD-LAX – service was spotty but I could see the potential benefit & got a few important things done
Great giveaway!
I would put the pass to good use when traveling this winter.
I used Gogo to book a last minute hotel when my flight was late.
Pick me, please!
I have used Gogo to catch up on emails inflight.
I’d love to use this pass on my upcoming flights for the holidays.
I’d love to use this pass on our trip Hungary and Austria this fall.
Have used gogo in the past on work trips and really enjoyed it.
Nice prize, thanks!
I’d love to have Gogo for a November flight from Kansas City to EWR.
I travel a ton for pleasure but can offset how much vacation time I declare by working during the travel portion of the trip. I have never exercised this option fully. These Gogo passes would be a boon to me taking the plunge. I’d simply love to win. Thanks.
Leslie, congrats on winning the Gogo 50-pack. Shoot me an e-mail at ed -at- milepoint dot com and I’ll get it sent your way!
I’ve used Gogo on a trip last winter to Vegas from JFK.
Gogo is the perfect prize for frequent travelers who are bored by most in-flight entertainment options.
I have a trip next week to Spain and a lot going on at work. It would be nice to try out GOGO for my flight home so that I am not so far behind when I return to the office.
Thanks for the giveaway – this is an awesome prize!
Gogo can give me 50 ways to leave my lover!
I will use it on a trip to San Francisco (but would really like it on Delta flights to Japan, which they don’t have yet.)
I’m addicted to Gogo. I pick my flights by the ones that have the wifi symbol listed on the flight options.
Gogo came in handy this summer when we were flying standby. The desitnation wasn’t selected until we knew we were on the flight. I could then real-time talk with my husband as he worked out our hotel and rental car reservations. When we arrived out west, everything was taken care of.
It’d be greatly appreciated on my mileage run to HK…
awesome prize.i look at it as 25 sessions since i’ll have to share it with my wife 🙂
I could use this for a flight home to Colorado to see family.
I have used GoGo to while away the hours since I can never seem to fall asleep on planes.
Thanks for offering this prize!
Would love to use this on my upcoming London trip and also going to Texas and Montana before the end of the year. Thanks!
One of the things I like using Gogo for is keeping in touch using BlackBerry Messenger while I’m up in the air. Great to chat at 40k feet!
Would love to win!
Haven’t been able to use google yet
Darn autocorrect – Gogo
Would be great for intl flight to BCN
For an upcoming trip to Orlando …
Hi Ed! Just wondering – have you announced a winner for this yet? I have not seen the results for the giveaway.
Thanks.
Yes, you should see a reply up thread to Leslie, congratulating her on winning it. Don’t worry, I have another one coming up shortly!