I don’t remember this being a thing in the past, but airlines now seem to be releasing details on the most-watched entertainment options onboard from the previous year. Initially I was going to compare between airlines, but then I realized that was silly. After all, the airlines offer different movies/TV …
Category: Inflight Entertainment
Travelers have a love/hate relationship with inflight wifi, and that’s being kind. People want wifi on airplanes, but they want wifi that works. Wifi onboard is fairly common, but wifi that works well? Not so much. A recent test by Global Eagle and Telesat shows how there may be hope …
This is the kind of sponsored post that I really like doing. Global Eagle had me come down to take a tour of its entertainment division. The idea was to showcase all of the behind-the-scenes work that goes into getting entertainment in front of you when you fly. Global Eagle …
American is getting closer to taking delivery of its first 737 MAX (4 will be coming in the second half of this year), and it is starting to talk about what it’ll look like on the inside. It is now official that the airline will not install in-seat video on …
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The Middle Carrier Fight Isn’t Dead – Twitter
If you read only BoardingArea blogs, you might think that the dispute over subsidies to Middle East carriers was over and the US carriers had lost. Post titles include terms such as “Total Loss” and “…
For the last few years, people have been predicting the death of airline-provided inflight entertainment systems. With more and more people bringing their own devices and wifi becoming an onboard standard, the arguments for ditching the airline-provided systems grew stronger. That being said, there were still some benefits that couldn’t …
For those of you who have enjoyed my regular “In the Trenches” column on Intuit’s blog (now the called Small Business Center) for the past few years, I have some bad news to report. Apparently Intuit has decided to turn the blog into an accounting-focused site that’s populated by internal …
For years, I was frustrated by JetBlue’s failure to follow others and put wifi on its airplanes. What took so long? Well, after a false start, the effort didn’t begin until the airline felt it could provide a superior product. It seemed like JetBlue was losing out, but what …
Delta announced yesterday that it would be making big investments in improving its wifi speed and coverage. This, of course, is good news. But it’s also a very interesting indicator of how important wifi is becoming. This isn’t just an investment in adding wifi. It’s an investment in replacing …
In the Trenches: Minimizing Mistakes – Intuit Small Business Blog
Like everyone, we make mistakes. They’re almost all fixable but it costs us a lot of time to do it. We need to work on reducing errors.
This is Why It’s Taken So Long to Get Wi-Fi on International Flights…
I had been meaning to write about this after I met with the company at the APEX show back in September, but I never quite got around to it until now. At APEX, there were a lot of companies showing off the newest and coolest things to go on to …
For a few years, people have predicted the demise of traditional inflight entertainment (IFE) systems as wifi became more widely available on airplanes. But instead of seeing it disappear, we’re seeing IFE manufacturers work on bringing all the technologies together so travelers can get a rock star experience. (Not that…