Originally Posted by
star_world
The flight status page on continental.com or mobile.united.com shows the IFE installed on the specific aircraft operating your flight. For LAX-ITO you'll be limited to about 8 channels of looped movies / TV shows as it's outside the coverage area of DirecTV.
There are a few PMCO birds flying that do not have the DTV installation. per link below, there are like 30 737-8 and 2 737-9 planes out there. Remember that 737-500's would not get DTV. You should be in the clear as the LAX-ITO would not be a 500.
http://www.continental.com/CMS/en-US...eetStatus.aspx
You will now definitively know if you will have DTV until you can get it on flight status. Even then you are subject to swaps. I have been on a few recent flights where I was supposed to be on DTV flight but got a swap to non-DTV. It does happen.