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Personal entertainment devices (PED) on Hawaii 763 (HNL, OGG)? (consolidated)
Apr 20, 2012, 12:11 pm
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I also choose to buy chicken breasts at the supermarket instead of buying a chicken and killing it myself. YMMV.
If you get to the supermarket and find they don't have chicken breasts in stock, you can go to another market. Alternatively, you can figure on another dish for dinner.
If you get on an airplane and find the IFE is missing/broken, then you are just stuck with nothing to do for X hours.
It's truly great when everything works the way it is supposed to work. Sometimes it doesn't.
Be Prepared. (Thank you, Lord Baden-Powell.)
Apr 20, 2012, 12:52 pm
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I'm quite surprised that a 2.3MM EXP doesn't travel with an iPad loaded with entertainment content sufficient for such long-haul flights. Also, I am never without my BOSE headphones while traveling (I use my own instead of the AA ones). Just seems like common sense that BOSE + iPad are THE quintessential travel companions for any properly prepared EXP in today's world.
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Apr 20, 2012, 1:44 pm
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This thread has now been merged into the existing discussion about the lack of PEDs on HNL 767-300 flights. This merged thread has also been retitled for improved searchability.
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Apr 20, 2012, 4:58 pm
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Apr 20, 2012, 5:02 pm
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I'm quite surprised that a 2.3MM EXP doesn't travel with an iPad loaded with entertainment content sufficient for such long-haul flights. Also, I am never without my BOSE headphones while traveling (I use my own instead of the AA ones). Just seems like common sense that BOSE + iPad are THE quintessential travel companions for any properly prepared EXP in today's world.
2. I prefer not to bring my Bose headsets with me if they are provided by AA. I prefer to travel as light as possible.
I probably would have brought my Bose headsets and a DVD or two for my laptop if I did not think there was going to be entertainment options on the plane.
Apr 20, 2012, 5:05 pm
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[QUOTE=bareflanks;18426710]I specifically picked these flights because they were 763s and I wanted the flat/angled beds, rather than the uncomfortable F seats in the 757s.
Apr 20, 2012, 5:05 pm
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Apr 20, 2012, 5:15 pm
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AA is so variable in these kinds of things, I know only to check the AA website, which, of course, in this situation, was unhelpful. (Don't even get me started on asking here and getting 400+ responses to "do a search" which is usually fruitless unless you happen to already know the thread, so that you can search for the right terms.) I do fly widebodies whenever possible because I like the F/J seats on those flights better, but that's usually from LAX to New York, Miami or Europe.
Apr 20, 2012, 7:25 pm
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LAX-HNL would only be 6 hours in the most extreme of headwind conditions.
The average flight times on that route are 5:10 WB and 4:50 EB.
The average flight times on that route are 5:10 WB and 4:50 EB.
Apr 21, 2012, 12:40 am
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What do ya'll do for entertainment from closed door to 10,000 ft? Can nobody live on reading material alone? 
Apr 21, 2012, 4:11 am
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The confusion about PVD for those flying first time on the 763 HI routes is coming from the inflight "Entertainment" page on aa.com. When you enter any flight number on the "Music and More" selections for the month. . . if a 763 is the scheduled aircraft (which include HI routes) it states that you will get a PVD in J class and to see the Samsung choices below. So, a first timer, excited about their HI vacation and flying F on a 763 would assume that was correct.
Apr 21, 2012, 7:10 am
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[QUOTE=bareflanks;18426710]
Or worse, the 757's w/the refurbished cabins-those seats are just awful!
While the PEDs would be nice, I'm in agreement one should always have one's own entertainment-never know when the GA will announce, 'sorry folks, IFE on this plane isn't working so you may want to pick up a magazine before we leave'. Happened on the very route in question just a few weeks ago, albeit on the 757 referenced above.
I don't own an iPad, either. My choice: Kindle, iPod, Killer Sudoku.
My preference is noise cancelling ear-buds plugged into nothing. After commuting LAX-HNL twice a month for years, the 763's were wonderful. Don't mean to sound this way, but the OP should be thankful their F experience was not on a 757 built in 1994.
My preference is noise cancelling ear-buds plugged into nothing. After commuting LAX-HNL twice a month for years, the 763's were wonderful. Don't mean to sound this way, but the OP should be thankful their F experience was not on a 757 built in 1994.
While the PEDs would be nice, I'm in agreement one should always have one's own entertainment-never know when the GA will announce, 'sorry folks, IFE on this plane isn't working so you may want to pick up a magazine before we leave'. Happened on the very route in question just a few weeks ago, albeit on the 757 referenced above.
Apr 21, 2012, 2:46 pm
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Apr 23, 2012, 3:27 pm
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Hi,
I have just discovered to my horror that it appears that if travelling from DFW to Honolulu in First that there is no form of tv .... tell me it is not true .... having paid a small fortune for these flights, I am bit shocked by this ....
Mark
I have just discovered to my horror that it appears that if travelling from DFW to Honolulu in First that there is no form of tv .... tell me it is not true .... having paid a small fortune for these flights, I am bit shocked by this ....
Mark
Apr 23, 2012, 3:30 pm
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Cheers.