Originally Posted by
dieuwer2
Recently flew BOS-SFO and was pleasantly surprised by the availability of free personal IFE systems in the seat back. Did I get lucky? A colleague of mine taking an earlier flight said there was no such thing.
Unfortunately, for whatever reason my seat (27D) did not recline much. New as well?
Yes. More than likely you were on a 757 used for Trans Atlantic flights. EWR uses these for smaller EU cities like Stockholm.
Sometimes, these 757s need to fill in spot duty.