Comments on: Continental to Have 80 TV Channels, Program Guide Onboard

By: TAM

TAM — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:48:00 +0000

By LIVE TV you mean DIRECT TV? I recently flew in one of their 73E and paid $7.95 to have the service from IAH to EWR. I don’t mind paying this for more than 1 hour flights. It was pretty neat watching CNN live and switching to the Cav’s game. Besides, its better than the 73E I flew in a month earlier that didn’t have ANYTHING, not even in First Class!

By: CF

CF — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:11:12 +0000

Spa in Catskill NY – They’re going to be charging people for the entertainment, so that’s how they’ll make money. My understanding is that Continental didn’t have to pay much at all to have these installed, and because of that, LiveTV gets to keep a big chunk of the revenue.

By: Mary Kirby

Mary Kirby — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:27:44 +0000

Continental recently said it will launch LTV3 this month. Still waiting on a date, but we’ll hopefully see this within a couple weeks.

By: Spa in Catskill NY

Spa in Catskill NY — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:57:47 +0000

Looked on the livetv website and there is no update about Continental. They were to have begun retrofiting at the beginning of the year. I can’t wait. BTW – how do they make money on this or is it just to distract passengers from the lowered food quality?

By: Airline Technology Review | Flight Wisdom

Airline Technology Review | Flight Wisdom — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:43:52 +0000

[...] the In-Flight Entertainment company which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of JetBlue Airways. They are preparing to start installing a comprehensive in-flight TV system on Continental Airlines aircraft. It is [...]

By: CF

CF — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:57:07 +0000

Hey Runway Girl – Yep, they mentioned you would be coming down as well. Too bad we didn’t overlap. I’m not so sure about Oasis. I mean, it’s a creative use of their limited bandwidth, and it’s better than not having it, but I really think full internet access at respectable speeds is the only thing that will really satisfy people. Of course, as you surely heard, that’s not an easy business case for them to make.

I’m going to write more on this sometime this week.

By: Runway Girl

Runway Girl — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:05:59 +0000

Hey Cranky,

It looks like we scored back-to-back interviews with LiveTV. I just did a write-up about Oasis at http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/runway-girl/2008/11/livetv-has-a-feels-like-broadb.html

Sounds like a pretty cool plan. What are your thoughts?

By: worked there

worked there — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:59:18 +0000

Insider info. The company is looking for a buyer to sweep them up and get away from JetBlue. Other than that, I enjoyed my time there, and I always read your blog here while there. Good times, to bad they let a good thing go.

By: CF

CF — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:45:56 +0000

Oliver – It’s a complete refit. It will take 2 to 3 days to install on any airplane.

Chris – Melbourne was fun, and I think sleepy is a good way to put it!

Nicholas – Yes, we talked about JetBlue. Apparently about 2 years ago they saw the writing on the wall. They assumed that other providers would continue to improve and make their way onto other fleets. So they decided it was better to be a part of that than sit on the sideline. Continental was the first result of that, and they say they’re close with 2 more big carriers.

The overhead bin is a benefit when Continental has some of these planes flying down to Latin America. They need all the belly space they can get. (BTW, you will able to watch any channels in Spanish that broadcast in Spanish and English.)

By: Axel

Axel — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 02:35:42 +0000

Well, the 757 AVOD system on CO is great. but its on the international ones. the 767 system, though, is not that great.