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Old Nov 4, 2015 | 12:03 pm
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Originally Posted by 24left
Further to my post upthread about having wifi on AC 791, I still don't understand why it is so difficult for AC to get the wide body fleet up to speed.
It's not difficult per se, but it is probably not worth it financially for AC at this point in time to upgrade their wide-body fleet. So why would AC add an expense that will not increase revenue such that it covers the added expense?


Originally Posted by yvrgary
Probably the same general reason they're still using the same IFE system from what, eight years ago?

Nobody in management has been able to figure out whether it's revenue positive, and they don't want to touch anything that might only improve experience without increasing revenue?
Bingo! I suspect this is more in line with to the real reason than anything else posted here.
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