Same as on their 737s? We did have movies as well as live TV for SFO-DCA in August. Thought they might not have live TV on flights to Hawaii, but not sure since signals would come from satellites, so presumably the positioning of the satellite determines that. And movies wouldn't be affected.
The 753s are just starting to have DTV installed so many still have the overhead monitors. For 753s with DTV I believe the satellite TV will cut out pretty quickly out of SFO and you will just have the ~9 movie/tv/documentary channels
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Same as on their 737s? We did have movies as well as live TV for SFO-DCA in August. Thought they might not have live TV on flights to Hawaii, but not sure since signals would come from satellites, so presumably the positioning of the satellite determines that. And movies wouldn't be affected.
None of the 753s flying to Hawaii will be getting DirecTV. On the 753s to Hawaii it will be drop down monitors from the overhead bins every few rows.
So they are going to have a subfleet of 753s with just overhead monitors?
That's correct. The 753 flying to Hawaii are the ATA hand me downs (Tail #s 860 - 871) which are ETOPS rated will remain with the overhead monitors, the CO original 753s are not ETOPS rated (Tail #s 851-859) and these aircraft will receive DirecTV.
None of the 753s flying to Hawaii will be getting DirecTV. On the 753s to Hawaii it will be drop down monitors from the overhead bins every few rows.
Somehow when you said this it made me think of the monitors actually dropping every few hours (and FA's picking them back up). Maybe I fly to many old aircraft with maintenance issues.
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That's correct. The 753 flying to Hawaii are the ATA hand me downs (Tail #s 860 - 871) which are ETOPS rated will remain with the overhead monitors
Wow, I remember those ATA planes and had no idea sCO picked them up. Did sCO ever change the seats in these or are they the old ATA ones?
And if I remember correctly, there is no power in F, correct?
God, please let them have Mia-Tia's onboard in Feb to drown out the 5.5 hours of fun
We're using this flight to get to Maui, not get back. Returning to the Mainland on an Alaska Airlines 737-800, also in fc.
For the United fight, Seatguru says "Personal TV" and Seatexpert says "AVOD" (Seatexpert says even for this particular flight). I thought AVOD meant Audio-visual on demand, but if it is one of the seats upon which the drop-down moitors fall, maybe it is short for AVOID (though having a monitor hit me in the head might help me sleep through the slight). We will see. Already know we won't have any IFE for the US Airways flight from CLT to SFO. I'll lead the entire fc cabin in games of charades and Pictionary. For the UA flight we can sing "A hundred Mai-Tais on the wall."
mileage run? good bagels? sick and tired of 80F everyday?
the 753 is ok. at least the ETOPS versions all have E+ now. It's at least on par with the domestic 763 that was flying OGG-SFO. Probably better in F now. Though it's got to suck being stuck all the way in the back of a "flying pencil" when its time to deplane.
Is the engine cruising speed slower on this one, than the PMUA planes/engines? I know they are supposed to be more efficient because of the "density", but don't the engines contribute to that also?
Between that and the hard seats, maybe the worst mainline experience in the fleet?
I just did LAX-OGG on a 757-300 and I think the 737 F seats are worse than the 757-300 F seats. The headrest on the 737 F seats is just about useless while on the 753 it provides at least a little support in the extended position (I'm tall).
And yes, I was on a 753 with the drop down monitors. The TV's audio didn't work right for most of the flight but I didn't really care since I tend to read on longer flights.
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The thread is talking about the CO's 757-300's, UA never had the 300 series. So how could these be an "old UA plane?"
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Yup, drop down monitors. If an old UA plane, they are the ones above the aisle. If the CO ones, they are small ones like one sees in the AirBii.It is "on demand"; one can "demand" they start it up!
They were showing Spiderman both ways too many times in October.
No power in 95% of the 757s to HI.
I for one miss the twin aisle ghettobirds! At least they had power, and the new "digital projectors". And two aisles.
