Take your movies on flights

[samintx]

USAir is stopping movies I suppose others will stop also

Pay for view on flights?

[N-OS X-tasy!]

In-flight movies suck, anyway.

[tahoedrew]

Yep, my powerbook screen is still bigger when it sits on my lap than those crappy TVs in the aisles!

~A

[TLB]

I heard they are actually doing it to yank all the A/V equipment out of the planes. Saves 500-1000lbs which in turn saves fuel.

[samintx]

Yep, I just hope we don't get in the air and they say "throw your carry ons out the door. We are running out of fuel' ! ! ! ! !

[Zoidberg]

Elimination of frills and extras.. things like, oh, maintenance... uh, radar...

sorry for the lack of seat-belts... just hold on to the straps above your heads... uh, those of you in coach, you don't have straps...

Old Bob Newhart bit;

[raz]

[quote samintx]Yep, I just hope we don't get in the air and they say "throw your carry ons out the door. We are running out of fuel' ! ! ! ! ! I saw that movie. John Wayne was the pilot.

[Mike V]

The budget airlines down here do that.

You can rent a little hard drive player with an LCD monitor from them.


The battery lasts about 3 hours, so you should be able to get in two movies before you have to pay again.

[mikebw]

I have been in older DC-9's that still had big CRTs overhead. I would have ditched those long ago.

Getting rid of in-plane AV systems to save weight is a reasonable idea, but if everyone is just going to bring on their own portable system there will be no savings realized.