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> In 2016, the United airplane I was in still did not have a seatback screen This just depends which plane you get. They all have new and old planes, you can g
by megablast 10y ago
> In 2016, the United airplane I was in still did not have a seatback screen
This just depends which plane you get. They all have new and old planes, you can get unlucky on any airline.
- linkregister 10y agoDoes Turkish Airlines have airplanes in their fleet without seatback screens? Do these planes fly international routes?
- rtpg 10y agoNot sure about TA, but my experience is that 95% of this is just about when the planes get bought. Entertainment systems solve the "keep people happy problem" for relatively cheap. But it's pretty expensive to replace all the seats just for that. JAL/ANA have very new planes with cool entertainment systems, but they also fly their older planes on some routes with a bunch of stuff that looks like it's powered by VCR. To your question: they probably don't for their major international flights.
- davidgay 10y agoI haven't got "unlucky" on an international BA flight in 15+ years. So no, it doesn't just depend on the plane.
- IceyEC 10y agoI flew Cape Town to LHR in January on BA and my entertainment system was stuck in a loop, booting into RedHat over and over again
- throwaway049 10y agoBut at least it's finally the year of Linux in the headrest.
- ptaipale 10y agoIt's not new. I had a 4-hour wait at the terminal to get to a KLM plane in Chengdu a bit over 10 years ago, this was perhaps 2006. The reason became clear when they informed us upon boarding that "the in-flight entertainment system is unfortunately not available, but it is not connected to flight systems and has no impact on flight security". The entertainment system on the seat backs was Linux in a reboot loop.
- koyote 10y agoI can't think of a single European airline that does not have seat-back IFE on long-haul flights. The same goes for the ME3 airlines.