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US Airways to remove all movies from it's fleet
If you were one of the last six people in the country that thought that US Airways was cool, you now have a reason to jump ship: the Tempe, Arizona based company just announced that it was abandoning all of its domestic In Flight Entertainment (IFE) systems and that it will further scrap any plans of ever implementing any.The culprit, they claim, is the five hundred pounds of extra weight that the systems add to each aircraft, thus taking more fuel to fly around the country.
US Airways: I know that your focus groups and business travelers don't place that high of a priority on In Flight Entertainment because they like to work on their laptops or crackberry around. But this is AMERICA. Our favorite national past time is watching television. We love it. And the 90% of people that don't have a laptop, Blackberry or Malcom Gladwell's last piece of non-fiction are going to get PISSED when their TV's go away. Do yourself a favor and save one of the last things that you had over the other legacy carriers with no IFE.
If you were still booked on an overseas US Airways flight, you can take down your craigslist posting for your tickets down and breathe a sigh of relief for now -- only domestic IFE is going away. But at this rate, who knows how long the airline, proper, is going to last.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
MattS Jul 10th 2008 2:37PM
Who cares? Between my Kindle, Laptop, MP3 player, and anything on paper, I don't have any interest in watching the IFE. Plus, I'd rather ditch the IFE than raise prices.
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Jimbo Jul 10th 2008 3:40PM
I can't remember the last time I saw someone buy a headset on US Airways. The movie selection is poor so who really cares? If they were removing a "DirecTV" system or something more integrated, maybe I'd care, but those small screens that flip down aren't worth getting angry over.
kathy Jul 11th 2008 8:46AM
No great loss, believe me. I flew USAir in 2006 to Maui. They showed 1 movie during the first leg of the trip (NY to Vegas), then questions from the "Cranium" game and clips from old TV shows for the rest of the flight. 12 hours of this from NY to Maui. On the return flight, it was the same, in reverse order, with the same movie and all.