iPod Seat-Back Video Coming To Flights

cameronk writes, "Apple announced partnership agreements with Air France, Continental, Delta, Emirates, KLM, and United that will let you display video from your iPod on the screen of the seat in front of you. Plus, the connectors charge iPods throughout the flight. This will be great for inter-continental flights where even my iPod Nano runs out of juice. I wonder how the airlines are going to keep inappropriate video (i.e. porn or even just movies like "Snakes on a Plane" or "Alive") from appearing on the seat-back displays."

Comments

What about Airbus?

[Roger W Moore]

I don't think the article mentioned Boeing in particular and on that timescale the new A380 from Airbus may be ready which is substantially larger than the 747 (not that, as a frequent traveller, I find this particularly a good thing!).

Re:What about Airbus?

[Kadin2048]

The point is not whether the planes are nicer, it's whether packing more and more people into a single aircraft is really a good idea, both from a safety standpoint, and from a logistical one. For example, how long is it going to take to get everyone on and off one of the A380s? Baggage handling? Turnaround time at terminals?

I could think of a lot of things that could start to make the experience less-than-optimal, simply as a result of scaling the aircraft up too big.

The smaller Airbus aircraft are definitely nice (although it's not an entirely fair comparison, since most of the Airbus aircraft that I've traveled on are substantially newer than the average Boeing), but that doesn't make me exactly eager to pack myself on to the flying sardine-can that is the 380.