Originally Posted by
Bohemian1
The mention of this going into 321 retrofits caught my eye.
According to Aerolopa the refurb A321s have the Thales Topflight i-4500 installed, of course the site could be wrong about this.
Originally Posted by
Adam Smith
I'm confused by this as well. Also by the reference to the 223s. They have a pretty new IFE system that's nice - are future deliveries going to get something different such that we have different products across the fleet? Or is this just what they already have? In which case, do future 223s form part of the 80 aircraft mentioned here or not? If so, are they only counting the ones that haven't been delivered? Or were those already covered by some previous announcement and this one presages AC's exercise of some of its options on additional 223s?
The earliest A220s definitely don’t have these as the IFE wasn’t launched until 2021. Additional the article mentions Air Canada doesn’t plan on having these until 2025. If all this is true it’ll be interesting to see if essentially brand new IFE systems get ripped out and replaced by these on the refurb A321s.