A Singapore Airlines passenger was shocked to receive a bill of $1,171.46 (€935 approx) for using its in-flight Wi-Fi.

Jeremy Gutsche logged onto the Wi-Fi on a flight between London and Singapore recently, and apparently – in between sleeping - whiled away some of the flight answering emails and downloading a single power point document.

In total, he said this amounted to just 155 page views. He knows this because he claims to have counted them in his head in an effort to gauge the cost of his usage.

“I wish I could blame an addiction to Netflix or some intellectual documentary that made me $1,200 smarter,” he wrote on his blog, Trend Hunter.

“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 be charged a lot of money for stuff.”

Mr Gutsche was outraged when he received the enormous bill. But he admits that at one point he downloaded a 4MB document that he needed to show to colleagues, which took an hour.

“That doc probably cost me $100 to upload, so I hope my team liked it," he said.

“I actually even emailed them a warning that my upload was taking a while,” he continued. “That email probably cost me $10. And 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.”

Airplane Internet Gouging - Singapore Airlines Billed Me $1200 for The Internet http://t.co/sWVMZjFimJ #World pic.twitter.com/T256VNW30B — Jeremy Gutsche (@jeremygutsche) November 13, 2014

He said the flight had been “otherwise enjoyable”.

Telegraph.co.uk