Is AA the only US airline with power on almost all planes?
 

I dont fly any other then AA for 99.9% of my travels. Recently I have had to take CO and UA for some segments and realized how good I have it on AA. Almost all flights I take have power whether its a MD80, 737, 757 etc on AA.

UA and CO dont seem to have power in Y even on their larger planes. Given all the talk about comparing AA vs UA vs CO this one thing on AA makes it over the top for me. Rather watch something on the laptop screen rather then a 2.5" ipod or iphone.

Every plane has power. Some used to fly , some used for ovens, lighting, TV, intercom and the like. I flew in a Gypsy Moth once, It had none and you had to wear a leather helmet and turn the prop by hand. AA is not there (yet). The new Eagle. Literally. It will be a real eagle.

My laptop and iPod have batteries in them and work for a while without power.

Seatguru.com will show you who and what seats have power on a lot of airlines, if you mean in seat power for your own personal use.

Note CO does in some widebody planes.

Fortunately, ALL of the flights I have been on have had power :D

Do you mean AC? :)

Virgin America's website says it has AC power, so you don't even need an adapter.

You are correct.

I use them to run my DVD player. (Load limit is 75W, which will work for most laptop computers; though not mine as mine is really a "portable" that "Hoovers" up a whopping 145W! :eek:, being a Dell Inspiron 9100 I bought for doing heavy duty graphics and 3-D picture renderings when on trips, more than a year before I found FlyerTalk and started flying a lot. My AC adapter is literally nearly the size of a brick.)

Easiest way to compare features, like power ports, is the comparison charts on www.SeatGuru.com

http://www.seatguru.com/charts/domestic_economy.php

http://www.seatguru.com/charts/domestic_first_class.php

AA's coach exit rows I think all have power (except the RJs and turboprops), as well as all business and first class seats, which is what most of us see.

It's usually every other row has power in AA coach (again, except the RJs and turboprops), so it does pay to double-check www.SeatGuru.com to be sure to have it.

Steve

Yep, VX has AC power with standard (US) outlets in every row (2 outlets per 3 seats in Y and 1 outlet pet seat in F IIRC). It's quite handy for those of us with the newer Macs, where the airplane adapter only powers the system (and sometimes does not provide enough power to avoid draining the battery slowly).

In my experience, AA provides the largest number of DC power ports of any major US carrier.

I never had much success on the 737's getting them to work :(

Be careful with the 763s. SeatGuru's power port indicators do not match AA's "Our Planes" map. The "Our Planes" diagram is correct, as I found out when I picked 22B because SeatGuru said it had power. It did not. They seem to have relocated many of the power ports to the mini-cabin (rows 10-13) during the NGBC seat upgrades. All mini-cabin rows (both the side and the middle sections) have at least one power port now.

Hope you sent that info to SeatGuru so that they can update their seatmap!

Edited to add: Are you saying that Version 1 is incorrect? Or just that you had Version 2?

I think I sent it to SeatGuru, but I can't swear that I did. This came up early in a string of six weeks of trips so the memory is a little fuzzy.

Neither SeatGuru Version 1 or Version 2 matches what AA shows for its 763 seat map (as far as power goes). The times I have been in Y on a 763 seemed to match the AA seat map under About Us -> Our Planes. I don't even know what the difference is between Version 1 and Version 2 now that NGBC seats are completely installed.

SeatGuru also shows both versions of the 763 as having lie-flat swivel seats. I think we can all agree that these seats don't swivel. They do mention on Version 1 that the power port assignments can vary.

Here's what I see for the 763 (align SeatGuru v1 and v2 in adjacent tabs and switch back and forth to see the differences more easily):

As you noted, v1 also says: "Beware that the power ports in economy are not consistent across all aircraft. Some of the older planes have no power in economy." Too bad they can't be more definitive, but there may just be too many variations for some reason.

Y on the 777s also doesn't seem to always be correct in the rear cabin, as far as powerports go. See <http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showt...wer+777&page=2>

IIRC the ex-TWA aircraft, particularly the 757's, generally didn't have power in Coach, though I think most of those have gone now?

boy, my habit of flying AA burned me on this trip. I used to pack 3 batteries for travel, but once i became an aa loyalist, just brought my igo juice.
But b/c AA was late, I was rebooked on UA from BOS>LAX (5 hours work lost); and surprisingly the Cathay (dragonair) flight in business class from HKG>DLC didn't have power either.

on this dimension, i really think aa is the best...