Originally Posted by longtimeflyin

I don't think anyone in this thread is qualified to even provide a ballpark as to the costs of increasing CVR retention to 24 hours. This is an orange box that has some serious criteria that needs to be satisfied, let alone one that involves design, test, and then mass implementation across fleets.

This isn't like swapping out your hard drive on your gaming console here.

Avionics Sales CVR FDR Aviation Equipment

Anyone want to posit this question to that firm?

I believe it was once said the curtains that separate premium from non premium cabins was an exorbitant amount of money. People need to keep this in mind when making blanket statements like the cost for an increase for data retention of CVRs to 24 hours is marginal. This is most likely blatantly wrong information.