Originally Posted by
djk7
It would be nice if they were more proactive about letting people know. I have found that my travel experience is better if I follow a few rules:
1) Don't rely on the airline to entertain me.
Agreed. Honestly, I don't understand why US airlines insist on charging for checked bags when they could just as easily save as much or more by removing those IFE systems that take up so much space and weight. Many people these days travel with laptops, they'll watch their own movies...why even bother with a heavily edited cut of a mediocre Hollywood movie. Don't have a laptop? Books still work just as well as they have for hundreds of years.
That said--when an airline does make the effort to differentiate its IFE (JetBlue probably being the best example, at least in the US), I certainly do appreciate it. :-)