Originally Posted by
TWA Fan 1
And, assuming the OP had never before flown a CO DirecTV-installed a/c (which one would surmise from the post), he/she could well have assumed that it was an AVOD system, since he/she never actually used it.
Originally Posted by
TWA Fan 1
As far as the on-board content, if the system is working properly, there should definitely be movies available. Are you saying that those movies were not available? If so, that would imply the entire system was down.
Not to engage in semantical hairsplitting but I did mean AVOD and not IFE. I was not aware that on CO's 737s, there is absolutely no free content on the video screen during flight. It's interesting that CO is essentially saying to anyone flying to/from Hawaii that there will be no inflight entertainment. After all, who would pay $7.99 for DirecTV knowing it doesn't work over water?
Also, I'm sure the system was working; after all, I did see people watching their screens. My point is that there was no free content available (at least according to the FA). I know I could have purchased DirecTV and, as a result, had access to the movies embedded in the system.
It would be helpful if CO made people aware that if they fly a 737, there will be no free movies.
That said, my friend is a CO Gold and he claims to have flown on the 737s a lot (he lives in Hawaii) and they always had free movies; that is, AVOD, meaning movies that you can choose rather than movies that are played in a loop.
Last point; yes, it's true I rarely fly CO and try to fly UA exclusively. Now I have another reason not to fly CO.
