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Old Nov 21, 2024 | 8:13 pm
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Originally Posted by JK-SFO
I actually know this from a flight this summer! I was flying PHL to ORD but the map showed Montreal to ORD, I think on either a 737-MAX8 or maybe an A319/320 with the NEXT upgrades. I mentioned this to a FA (who happened to be the pursuer) and the conversation was something like this: "The map shows we are flying from Montreal to Chicago." She said "Oh - sorry, I put that in there. Where did we start out?" Me: "Philadelphia" Her: "Oh - right, let me go reset that! So sorry" The entire IFE was reset for everyone and then the map was correct. I don't know if those watching TV or movies had to start over their shows from the beginning.

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Originally Posted by lincolnjkc
Interestingly I had nearly the same situation on a 7M9 (ship 7546 / N27546) LAX-CLE this morning...During boarding it was showing the correct flight number but "Time to Houston" and that the flight was BFI-IAH -- as far as I can tell UA doesn't fly that route (or anywhere else from BFI) in revenue service. Flight attendant was like "No, we're definitely going to Cleveland, is it showing something else? Went up to the front console hit a couple buttons and every screen went dark but when they came back up had the correct origin and destination and I had to re-pair Bluetooth but all was good.
Any explanation for how the map can start out correct and then become incorrect? Seems a head-scratcher from everything I can figure. Did FA actually go and change it to the wrong thing mid-flight?
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