Apple Teams Up With Air France, Continental, Delta, Emirates, KLM & United to Deliver iPod Integration

[Google Kreme]

On 14 Nov 2006, at 14:05 , Chad Leigh wrote:
> On Nov 14, 2006, at 2:01 PM, Google Kreme wrote:
>> On 14 Nov 2006, at 10:41 , Kevin Callahan wrote:
>>> http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2006/nov/14ipod.html
>>> Apple Teams Up With Air France, Continental, Delta, Emirates, KLM  
>>> & United to Deliver iPod Integration
>>>
>>> CUPERTINO, California—November 14, 2006—Apple® today announced it  
>>> is teaming up with Air France, Continental, Delta, Emirates, KLM  
>>> and United to deliver the first seamless integration between  
>>> iPod® and in-flight entertainment systems. These six airlines  
>>> will begin offering their passengers iPod seat connections which  
>>> power and charge their iPods during flight and allow the video  
>>> content on their iPods to be viewed on the their seat back displays.
>>
>> Ok, Now THAT is cool.
>>
>> Course, they'll likely charge $10 to do it...
>
> Except for maybe Emirates, they probably only have the seat back  
> displays in business / first class anyway (ok, AF has it in some  
> planes in economy).  When I flew AF the Airbus 340 planes did not   
> have it but the 777 did.

The last time I flew (I think it was Frontier) the plane had screens  
on every seat.  I think it's become far more common as new equipment  
is phased in.


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