Entertainment Tablets Only on Hawaii, NYC & DC Area, FL and BOS Routes (11/1/2018)
Oct 23, 2018, 7:55 am
#31
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Oct 23, 2018, 8:32 am
#33
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Oct 23, 2018, 8:38 am
#34
Join Date: Mar 2005
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It sucks, but I’m not going to be the one to vent. Just like the now old and crappy IFE on VX, there’s a cost to maintain those tablets, or replace them. I’d wager that a lot of people use their own devices anyway. I know I do...my iPad has a bigger screen, better resolution, and wireless headphone technology.
Oct 23, 2018, 8:44 am
#36
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Not premium in the traditional sense, but SEA-ANC is one of, if not the, busiest mid-con routes in the country; it’s not a once daily to MKE type of route. AS alone runs 20-ish flights daily on SEA-ANC in peak season; it’ll get noticed.
Oct 23, 2018, 8:50 am
#37
Join Date: Apr 2003
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That may be precisely why they did it. It is a route that AS dominates so they feel they can get away with it. In other markets with Mint and with US3 transcons which offer a much more substantial product than AS (SEA/SAN/SFO/LAX/LAS-JFK/BOS, etc), a little digiplayer is a consolation prize for non getting all the bells and whistles offered by the competition. For those based in Alaska, there are not a lot of other options for those that need to fly a lot within the state and also travel outside. it.
Oct 23, 2018, 8:58 am
#38
Join Date: May 2003
Location: SFO, mostly
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Any other “surprise” changes happening 11/1?
Oct 23, 2018, 10:34 am
#39
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: SEA, NW/DL 1.6Million Miler
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Has any company official confirmed the news yet?
If true, this would be a significant blow to AS in-flight experience. Most aircrafts within legacy carriers have onboard device of some sort.
Alaskaair.com indicates
What is considered "coast-to-coast"? What about.... PHL, PIT, IND, CHS, RDU, ATL, MSY, BNA, CMH, DTW, ORD, DFW, IAH,...just to name a few
Often airlines entice passengers traveling to hubs of competing legacy carriers. PHL, ORD, MSP, DTW, DFW, IAH, ATL might be saved from the chopping block....
Jiburi
If true, this would be a significant blow to AS in-flight experience. Most aircrafts within legacy carriers have onboard device of some sort.
Alaskaair.com indicates
Our inflight entertainment tablet
On coast-to-coast and Hawaii flights, you can rent our inflight entertainment tablet.Often airlines entice passengers traveling to hubs of competing legacy carriers. PHL, ORD, MSP, DTW, DFW, IAH, ATL might be saved from the chopping block....
Jiburi
Oct 23, 2018, 10:40 am
#40
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Seattle
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Decided to check AS website for changes in language.
It does now say "coast to coast" (guess they decide). then Noticed - price for rental in coach has been raised to $10. Believe it was $8, just last week.
Again, for the travelers who fly maybe once or twice a year...they are going to be really unhappy with all the recent changes.
It does now say "coast to coast" (guess they decide). then Noticed - price for rental in coach has been raised to $10. Believe it was $8, just last week.
Again, for the travelers who fly maybe once or twice a year...they are going to be really unhappy with all the recent changes.
Oct 23, 2018, 10:44 am
#41
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Location: Over the Bay Bridge, CA
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Has any company official confirmed the news yet?
If true, this would be a significant blow to AS in-flight experience. Most aircrafts within legacy carriers have onboard device of some sort.
Alaskaair.com indicates [h2]
What is considered "coast-to-coast"? What about.... PHL, PIT, IND, CHS, RDU, ATL, MSY, BNA, CMH, DTW, ORD, DFW, IAH,...just to name a few
Often airlines entice passengers traveling to hubs of competing legacy carriers. PHL, ORD, MSP, DTW, DFW, IAH, ATL might be saved from the chopping block....
Jiburi
If true, this would be a significant blow to AS in-flight experience. Most aircrafts within legacy carriers have onboard device of some sort.
Alaskaair.com indicates [h2]
What is considered "coast-to-coast"? What about.... PHL, PIT, IND, CHS, RDU, ATL, MSY, BNA, CMH, DTW, ORD, DFW, IAH,...just to name a few
Often airlines entice passengers traveling to hubs of competing legacy carriers. PHL, ORD, MSP, DTW, DFW, IAH, ATL might be saved from the chopping block....
Jiburi
Consolation? Eff da cookiez. Send all the 75Ks a cheapo pad-type device suitable for the AS IFE. Oh yes, you can keep my luggage tags. I already know who I am, and you (the traveling public) don't need to see how important I am. But send a pad.
Oct 23, 2018, 10:54 am
#42
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: SEA, NW/DL 1.6Million Miler
Programs: DL 1MM Annual Silver,AS 100K 22-24, AS 75K 15-21
Posts: 4,279
If I was a marketing representative of legacy carriers, I would jump on the "smear and run" campaign, making a commercial of how legacy carriers differentiate premium passengers with plush amenities, food and entertainment. With Alaska, you get blanket and/or device entertainment if you are lucky, and firm uncleaned headrest, and entree choices of lentils and/or polenta or Kale.
Alaska Airlines will be the biggest joke of all airlines....
Jiburi
Alaska Airlines will be the biggest joke of all airlines....
Jiburi
Oct 23, 2018, 11:08 am
#43
Join Date: Sep 2017
Location: Between SFO and STS
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I’m quite surprised to see this much outrage over those crappy tablets. Everyone can take their budget for the board room membership that no one is paying for any more and buy a nice ipad.
Oct 23, 2018, 11:16 am
#44
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Decided to check AS website for changes in language.
It does now say "coast to coast" (guess they decide). then Noticed - price for rental in coach has been raised to $10. Believe it was $8, just last week.
Again, for the travelers who fly maybe once or twice a year...they are going to be really unhappy with all the recent changes.
It does now say "coast to coast" (guess they decide). then Noticed - price for rental in coach has been raised to $10. Believe it was $8, just last week.
Again, for the travelers who fly maybe once or twice a year...they are going to be really unhappy with all the recent changes.
Oct 23, 2018, 11:16 am
#45
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Excuse me, but I pay for most of my F seating. I don't own a pad. I use the tablets. It is part of my F experience. It would be part of my 75K experience behind the sort-of-curtain.