IA tunes up in-flight entertainment system

New Delhi: Call it the life jacket for inflight entertainment systems, Indian Airlines has asked Airbus to have a DVD channel on all 42 aircraft it would be supplying to it from June onwards.
The mix of A-319, 320 and 321s were to have a moving map and five video channels. But recently IA CMD V Trivedi was flying back to India on a foreign airliner and the plane's audio system was not working. The cabin crew immediately put on a silent movie's DVD and passengers didn't feel the pinch.
Following this experience, Trivedi asked Airbus to install an additional DVD channel — at no extra cost — on all the planes it would be supplying one a piece every month from this June.
Airbus has complied with this request and all new IA planes would now have this facility. Each seat of these new aircraft would have an individual screen.
IA does not plan to keep DVD channel only as a spare to be used in an entertainment system snag situation. "The five channels would show Hindi, English, music video, lifestyle and humour programmes.
23/04/07 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India

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Categories: Indian Apr 2007