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Quote: Have you seen the screens that Delta is about to put in their 320's from the early 90s? Totally customizable by each passenger. AA will not be able to compete with the United and Delta's domestic product. I guess it will be cheaper though. I've never understood why so many aa pilots seem to think IFE screens are bad. The passengers love them. As Spirit is finding out now, we will eventually too. With ticket prices going up and up, the passengers actually would like to have something nice in the form of on-board product.

In about 5 years, 2/3rds of the domestic routes flown by AA, united and Delta will have IFE screens. AA will make up about 90% of that bottom third. While we already know it as pilots, how bad the AA product is, it is about to become a whole lot more obvious to everyone else. Get to look forward to 5x the number of social media bloggers posting about how horrible this or that is on American.

This company has an image problem and our management team only makes it worse. But, the BOD seems to like being last, there is no drive to become better at this place. Top to bottom, too many at the company don't think we are doing anything wrong.
I have my iPad, I don’t have any use for that.
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Quote: I have my iPad, I don’t have any use for that.
As mentioned I don't like my movie interrupted when the FAs are hawking credit cards. All I need is in-seat power.

How is United's Bluetooth connection going to work with 180 people on the airplane? BT is 2.4GHz and is not a CDMA protocol. There isn't enough spectrum available for everyone on the airplane to use it at the same time without massive quality degradation.
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Quote: As mentioned I don't like my movie interrupted when the FAs are hawking credit cards. All I need is in-seat power.

How is United's Bluetooth connection going to work with 180 people on the airplane? BT is 2.4GHz and is not a CDMA protocol. There isn't enough spectrum available for everyone on the airplane to use it at the same time without massive quality degradation.
DL has already rolled this out on some planes. Clearly the engineers and tech guys know more than you… Bluetooth works perfectly fine on the subway and other public transportation with hundreds of people
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Quote: DL has already rolled this out on some planes. Clearly the engineers and tech guys know more than you… Bluetooth works perfectly fine on the subway and other public transportation with hundreds of people
Also, everyone that wants to use BT on AA flights is doing so now with their personal devices. I don't see how connecting to a seatback screen makes it worse than connecting to a personal device. It's one set of ears either way.
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Flew on United a few months ago and their "new" screen wasn't as responsive as my IPad (Compared to Apple screens--It lags just enough, and is imprecise enough to be annoying). Also the Bluetooth didn't Connect. Just give me power and data for my device. Also, AAinflight has free movies I can watch on my own--already configured for my bluetooth headphones--IPad. Not a sycophant. I just like this aspect of our IFE. The money should go to Wifi 6 or something cutting edge so we can stream anything.
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Quote: Flew on United a few months ago and their "new" screen wasn't as responsive as my IPad (Compared to Apple screens--It lags just enough, and is imprecise enough to be annoying). Also the Bluetooth didn't Connect. Just give me power and data for my device. Also, AAinflight has free movies I can watch on my own--already configured for my bluetooth headphones--IPad. Not a sycophant. I just like this aspect of our IFE. The money should go to Wifi 6 or something cutting edge so we can stream anything.
starlink has started service on private jets...
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Quote: starlink has started service on private jets...
Yeah, but good gravey it's expensive!
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Quote: Also, everyone that wants to use BT on AA flights is doing so now with their personal devices. I don't see how connecting to a seatback screen makes it worse than connecting to a personal device. It's one set of ears either way.
I respectfully disagree. Many people are using wired headsets. If you take that opinion away then the number of people using BT increases. At some critical mass the collisions become unmanageable and the audio will be laggy.
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Quote: I respectfully disagree. Many people are using wired headsets. If you take that opinion away then the number of people using BT increases. At some critical mass the collisions become unmanageable and the audio will be laggy.
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I’m sure the engineers thought of this already. What makes you think all of these people wearing wired headsets now will suddenly convert?
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Quote: Straight from the Airbus Fleet CA mouth: there is no hours limit on the Airbus. There is no hard drop-dead number. As long as they pass their heavy inspections, they will continue to fly.
Yes, but there is only so much speed tape that can be manufactured in a year.
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