You might want to nix surfing the Internet on your next flight or you could end up like one guy who racked up a $1,200 Wi-Fi bill.
Jeremy Gutsche, founder of TrendHunter.com, was slapped with the $1,171 bill for using the Wi-Fi to check his email during his Singapore Airlines flight from London to Singapore.
Gutsche said he paid for a $30 package to use the in-flight Wi-Fi. The internet connection was extremely slow, but he did not think the 155 web pages he viewed would leave him with a thousand dollar tab when he stepped off the plane on Wednesday.
"I wish I could blame an addiction to Netflix or some intellectual documentary that made me $1200 smarter," a pissed-off Gutsche wrote on TrendHunter.com. "However, the Singapore Airlines Internet was painfully slow, so videos would be impossible and that means I didn't get any smarter...except about how to charge a lot of money for stuff.
"I did learn that," he added.
Gutsche goes on to list how long it took him to view certain documents and what it cost, such as the hour it took to upload a 4-megabyte PowerPoint that "probably cost me $100."
"Yes, the pricing per mb was disclosed on sign-up, but I bought the $30 package, slept through most of the flight, and really didn't think I'd end up a thousand bucks past the limit," he wrote.
Gutsche said Singapore Airlines did not reply to the situation. On Friday the airline told the U.K.'s Mail Online they will follow up with him on the matter, but it is not clear if the bill will be lowered.
"Shouts out to the Shangri La who welcomed me to my hotel with a note explaining that the internet HERE, is always free," Gutsche wrote.
