Originally Posted by
mattarse
Aha - maybe I read it wrong, I'll look up the plane types and see. Will be flying LON - EWR - PTY on continental so maybe it's not a $6 charge. I don't see it specifying that trans - oceanic would be free though.
The LON-EWR flight, assuming its on CO metal, will be either a 757 or a 777 and will have complimenatary AVOD.
http://www.continental.com/web/en-US...d/default.aspx
The $6 chrage is only for DIRECTV enabled flights. Your flight from EWR-PTY will likely be on a 738 or 739, which means there is a very good chance it will have DIRECTV. Unfortunately, the livetv portion will not work when you are more than 200 miles from the continental US -- probably about halfway through your flight. The stored programming (3 movies and about 4 channels of TV shows, will still work).
http://www.continental.com/web/en-us...ght_201009.pdf
There's also a chance you will be on a non-converted 738, which will have movies and tv shows on overhead monitors -- headphones are for sale for $3, but you can bring your own.