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Old Dec 29, 2009 | 9:33 pm
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Originally Posted by AArlington
I thought the whole point was some IFEs show the map view of where the plane is, and they didn't want that. So they force turning off all IFE? (harmless movies and TV shows?)???

Which in turn makes the seats not recline! Argh!
The issue was that the map display could not be isolated. They could either turn on all IFE including the map or turn off the map, which means downing all IFE. It isn't like AA wanted to do this. You can thank the morons over at the TSA for this temporary rule.
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