Originally Posted by
C17PSGR
You're right about the delay. I've never seen them miss it but sometimes they do take their time getting back to 11 A/F. Seems like all the other Summitts and Ascents sit up front (which is the way I think it should stay
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I struck up a conversation with an FA in the back galley when I went for a glass of water. We were talking about how many people actually pay the $5.99 for TV and he said not many. Even on the shorter flights with $3.99 TV it's not a large percentage. I told him I just carry my ipod with a few TV shows from itunes and watch that rather than pay the fee. He went on to explain that he knew of several people who carried those pre-paid VISA cards with a $0 balance and would swipe those for free TV. Since the system doesn't communicate in real-time with the ground it goes ahead and authorizes. When the system syncs up, it can't get charged. I was shocked the FA actually said this.
On another note. I've done the buy-on-board thing and they really need to change their biller name on the credit card. When my boss sees "Live TV" on corp card expense report he gets a little twitchy.