Doctor of Credit notes that U.S. Bank has notified existing cardholders that the free Gogo in-flight WiFi pass benefit will be discontinued on April 1, 2022. You can still enroll in the benefit until March 31, 2022 and passes are valid for 12 months from issuance, so you could theoretically get yourself passes valid until the end of March 2023.
The Altitude Reserve currently offers 12 complimentary Gogo Wi-Fi passes each year, but no longer will beginning in April of 2022.
This change wouldn’t be a big issue for me as T-Mobile provides unlimited complimentary Gogo in-flight WiFi for people on select plans (including my Magenta Max plan), though I think that is only valid on domestic US carriers and I had difficulty getting the necessary text message verification codes on Delta flights last month. For those who fly often and count on this benefit, this is quite a devaluation as paying for WiFi could easily add up.
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In case this helps anyone, I just took advantage of this before it expires tomorrow, even though my passes typically aren’t available until the end of May. Today is March 31, and 12 new passes were available for me today, two months earlier than usual.
Also, FWIW, the page that announced the ending of the program has already been taken down.
https://www.myvisacardportal.com/usbank/en_us/altitude/altitudereserve/gogo_wifi.html
Google cache shows that the page used to say: “The Gogo® Inflight Wi-Fi benefit on your U.S. Bank Altitude® Reserve Visa Infinite® Card will be discontinued on April 1, 2022. You may continue to qualify and enroll in the benefit through March 31, 2022 to receive your 12 complimentary inflight Wi-Fi passes, valid for 12 months from date of issuance. Each valid complimentary Inflight Wi-Fi pass is good for one (1) use through March 31, 2023.”
Why would anyone need WiFi on a plane when one could listen to hours of downloaded FM on the air instead?
No loss for me. I have (and love) Altitude Reserve but have only used the Go-Go once in about four years. The planes I fly never use go-go anyway.
I also have this via TMobile and it’s a small step above worthless as airlines move away from Gogo anyway.