If you get nauseous looking at screens on the seat in front of you, American Airlines plans to roll out in-flight streaming to your own personal, Wi-Fi enabled doodad. At the very least, you might get a little bit more privacy.
Customers will be able to stream TV shows and movies directly to their laptop, iDevice, smartphone or tablet. American Airlines has already begun testing it on two Boeing 767s that serve a transcontinental route (too bad they aren’t 777s), but wider testing will commence this summer.
If everything with the FAA goes to plan, American Airlines could start offering the service in the fall. There’s no word on how much it will cost. The alternative could be just bringing your own movies to watch in-flight…
American also plans to offer in-flight Wi-Fi to every domestic route. Installation will begin later this year, and won’t be available until sometime next year at the very earliest.
The question of whether you’ll have to keep your, for example, iPhone on airplane mode remains a question to be answered since most airplane modes stop all radio and wireless data transmission. Wonder how the flight attendants will handle that one?
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