GIANT: eSIM Mobile Data Plan

I love how easy and seamless it is to get WiFi on a flight with this app. With these credits, you can choose from most major airlines based in different countries. This works with all 3 legacy US carriers, which is great for me! The e-sim function is also pretty neat if you’re traveling and need something to tide you over until you can grab a sim card.

I’m going to heed some caution here. While it is nice to have internet on longer flights I would make sure you double check on your specific flight that the WiFi capabilities are actually working. Not one of my flights but two had their WiFi down. So my $30 purchase was rendered useless with no ability to refund. In the future I will wait until the flight is underway rather than trying to be preemptive. I recommend the airline or the app finds a way to refund their patrons if the system is down.

I fly a great deal, and have a love/hate relationship with inflight wifi, and the “15 minutes of free wifi” offers airlines tend to have. Most of the time there is one or two critical emails I am waiting for, but not sure when it will arrive, and so I strategically space out when to redeem that credit. Far enough into the flight that the email is likely to be there, but early enough that I still have time to do what I need with it. It’s super annoying, and I hate paying $10 or $20 flat rate internet for that one message. This app lets me have a credit that I can use a little bit at a time all flight. Let’s me check my emails and only pay a little, then again in 30 mins, etc. I end up getting through the flight for $2 worth of internet instead of $19. I honestly wish this app were supported universally. It’s such a better model than the flat rate thing where you buy minutes and data you don’t use.