I flew from NYC to Chicago a few weeks ago and I started doing the math for how much all us passengers had paid for that flight. Small plane - 2 seats on each side - maybe 40 rows. So we got 80 people paying $200 (for just the one-way) - that was $16000. For 2 hours in the air - 2 pilots - 1 flight attendant. I could see profit in that equation!

They could certainly afford sat-transmission.