Continental Must Think Slow And Steady Wins In-Flight Entertainment Race
While some airlines are declaring their dominance through amenities like in-flight WiFi, other airlines are a little behind the times. One such airline is Continental, which announced a rollout of DirecTV service on its domestic fleet back in 2008. Well, 2009 is almost halfway over, so we thought we’d check and see what’s been done—too bad we’re totally disappointed.
Fortunately, they’ve launched a pretty neat tracker where we can monitor their progress, or lack thereof. So far they’ve installed the seatback monitor service on 4 of 21 737-900ER aircraft, which according to their snazzy bar graph means they are only 1% complete overall. They are claiming these planes will be finished by September, with a couple other models finished by later this year. However, some won’t even be done until 2011, like their 757-300s.
The only good thing is that when it’s finally done, it will pretty much blow away other airlines live television offerings. They’ll have over 75 channels, including some you don’t even watch at home like Animal Planet, Oxygen, and Fox Reality Channel. There’s one catch though: accessing all this entertainment will cost $6 in the back of the plane, but will be free for those high rollers up front.
At this point most people load up their iPods with illegal downloads to watch in-flight, so by the time they finish, will people even be excited anymore?
Related Stories:
·Continental Airlines - Status of DirecTV Installation [Official Site]
·Five In-Flight Movies To Avoid Now [Jaunted]
·Continental coverage [Jaunted]
[Photo: David Kelly]
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