Neat, but seems a bit behind the times in a sense. There's nothing 'first class' about a tablet - an ipad is $500 - less than the cost of many flights Sure, it

Neat, but seems a bit behind the times in a sense. There's nothing 'first class' about a tablet - an ipad is $500 - less than the cost of many flights Sure, it's only valuable if it's loaded with good content. Stick a decent movie/TV show collection, some good games and some e-books on it, and it's both better and probably a lot cheaper than one of the fancy seatback TV systems, even once you account for breakage. What would make far more sense is to offer wifi on the planes, and offer in-flight purchases of content (movies/magazines) for android and possibly iphone/ipad. html5 or epub books for $1 while you're trapped in flight? I'd do it. Eek, no thanks, customers hate being nickel-and-dimed. (Which probably means United will do it, because they love nickel-and-diming.) Still, especially if you're in First Class you definitely shouldn't have to pay for entertainment. Budget carrier Jetstar in Australia is doing it with iPads: http://www.intomobile.com/2011/02/16/jetstar-ipad-rental-service/ http://www.intomobile.com/2011/02/16/jetstar-ipad-rental-ser... -- oddly they were supposed to start in April this year but I can't find a review of what the service is actually like.