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Some low cost airlines no longer have anything. A small fold-out tray to hold your tablet. There is Wi-Fi to access an intranet with flight information and mayb
by kazinator 10mo ago
Some low cost airlines no longer have anything. A small fold-out tray to hold your tablet. There is Wi-Fi to access an intranet with flight information and maybe some entertainment. If you have that, you just load it up with games from your play store.
- kaonwarb 10mo agoThis is increasingly common in domestic US full-price airlines. It makes sense, in a way - most folks have their own devices, and the airlines save money and weight and don't have to worry about future tech obsolescence - but still makes me a bit sad.
- jen20 10mo agoThe thing I really wish domestic airlines would take away is reclining seats in economy. Nothing good comes from having them.
- 15155 10mo agoMost budget carriers are going this way.
- jen20 10mo agoIndeed - I don't generally fly on US low cost carriers, but regularly used to fly on EasyJet in Europe, and the non-reclining seats were just more pleasant for everyone.
- silisili 10mo agoSame. I most recently flew Frontier and despite looking really spartan, it was actually super comfortable. And no reclining to fret over the whole flight.
- QuiEgo 10mo agoI've long enjoyed both Alaska's and Southwest's version of this.
- kazinator 10mo agoRight? That's why I don't want a car with any system for entertainment, beyond generics like speakers. The car is ideally going to last 25+ years, by which time that shit will be obsolete. The software won't be upgradable, etc.
- technothrasher 10mo ago> but still makes me a bit sad. I'm still sad the movie projectors are gone from the planes, also the little curtains for the windows, and the carve at your seat prime rib service.
- reincarnate0x14 10mo agoI prefer the Airbus 31x and 32x models without the entertainment systems so much more. On United the Boeing had fucking ads playing NON STOP THE ENTIRE FLIGHT and because I boarded early I'd try to turn off as many around me as possible because somehow the flying public does not mind bright flashing annoying lights in their faces for HOURS.
- JumpCrisscross 10mo ago> because somehow the flying public does not mind bright flashing annoying lights in their faces for HOURS We do. United has just positioned their economy products a hair below Delta by, in part, pulling off crap like this.
- Dylan16807 10mo ago"somehow does not mind" wasn't about airline choice, it was about people not hitting the off button.
- jquery 10mo agoThis is a United thing, not a Boeing/Airbus thing.
- _zoltan_ 10mo agoLast I flew AA inside the US, I could watch the entertainment content on my own device via the on board wifi. This was great.