How can you stand the lack of entertainment on the MD 80s?
I am new to AA and fortunately earned a
majority of my status on OW partners. This past week to flew from SMF to MKE via STL on MD 80s. No movie and no audio. How can you and I stand it? Have there ever been plans to put something into these planes? After reading every paper I could buy from STL to SMF the only alternative is sleeping. I just changed some SMF to DFW flights to go out of SFO. UA has AA beat on entertainment out of SMF at least. Thanks for hearing me. |
1. Power ports (as long as you're not flying TWA metal).
2. IBM Thinkpad 600X 3. Sony noise-cancelling headphones 4. Stack of DVD's and/or CD's. -- problem solved. |
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by RTWSTARALLIANCE: I am new to AA and fortunately earned a majority of my status on OW partners. This past week to flew from SMF to MKE via STL on MD 80s. No movie and no audio. How can you and I stand it? Have there ever been plans to put something into these planes? After reading every paper I could buy from STL to SMF the only alternative is sleeping. I just changed some SMF to DFW flights to go out of SFO. UA has AA beat on entertainment out of SMF at least. Thanks for hearing me.</font> Dave |
If you get tired of relaxing or reading a good book, just look out the window. What you will see out there is is far more compelling and interesting than anything ever put on a tv/movie screen.
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by BarryO: 1. Power ports (as long as you're not flying TWA metal). 2. IBM Thinkpad 600X 3. Sony noise-cancelling headphones 4. Stack of DVD's and/or CD's. -- problem solved.</font> 1. Panasonic DVD player 2. BOSE noise-canceling headphones 3. Stack of DVDs/CDs Unless I'm with someone interesting, flying is a great chance to listen to music and watch movies of my own choosing, not what AA might have selected for me. |
I miss having the option of listening to muzak or a movie but the reality is I hardly ever exercise those options when flying metal that is equiped with them.
I enjoy reading and hearing my seat mates life story. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif |
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by BarryO: 1. Power ports (as long as you're not flying TWA metal). 2. IBM Thinkpad 600X 3. Sony noise-cancelling headphones 4. Stack of DVD's and/or CD's. -- problem solved.</font> 2. Sony GR370 Laptop 3. Sony NC11 Noise cancelling headphones 4. Lots of netflix DVDs |
Just think of the MILES!
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Sleep. Read a magazine. Play a game on the computer (or a DVD).
Personally, I can go a few hours without entertainment programming. Even when I fly on flights that have, I don't always watch. |
MD-80 flights aren't nearly long enough for me to get tired of looking out the window, reading a magazine, napping or just plain thinking. I bring pencil & paper in case I need to write down something that comes to mind.
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Its no big deal. Entertainment on domestic flights is such a rarity, its not something you should expect to have. And, when flights have it, its usually no good to begin with.
Its no big deal, considering the MD-80's for the most part are not flying to longer domestic routes. The 737-800's have taken over some of those routes. |
1. Power ports
2. Toshiba laptop 3. Microsoft Train Simulator with U.S./Canada Regional Add-on pack Had to be different. [This message has been edited by yyzflyer (edited 05-16-2002).] |
I must agree with everyone else. Just plug in my laptop and play games or watch DVD's...umm..I mean work.
Also, GameBoy Advance is down to like $60 now so you can always pick one of them up. There are about 100+ games out so you can find at least 2 good ones for you. I personally play Tetris. And they are nice and small too. |
I never use the inflight entertainment when it is available, aside from monitoring the moving map display.
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