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Old Sep 6, 2018, 4:53 pm
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Live TV now on domestic aircraft with satellite WiFi
Surprised no one has posted on this yet.
Will be nice not to have to choose from the same movies for 3+ months.

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Old Sep 6, 2018, 5:58 pm
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Get ready for lots and lots of questions from pax, like:

"How do I find the app"?

"Where's the app on my laptop"?

"What's "Wi-Fi"? "What's a browser"? "How do I connect"?
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Old Sep 6, 2018, 9:31 pm
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Disney Channel, but not ABC? That seems odd.
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Old Sep 6, 2018, 9:38 pm
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The kids can only watch Real Housewives so many times lol
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Old Sep 7, 2018, 12:01 am
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Isn’t it so wonderful that they started with all the longhaul A321 legacy US aircraft that don’t even have in-seat AVOD or power
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Old Sep 7, 2018, 7:04 am
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Originally Posted by jvel
Isn’t it so wonderful that they started with all the longhaul A321 legacy US aircraft that don’t even have in-seat AVOD or power
319s and 320s to start - a very small portion of domestic flights. And neither 321s nor 738s mentioned.
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Old Sep 7, 2018, 7:38 am
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Who still watches live TV?! (besides sports, of course.)
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Old Sep 7, 2018, 7:43 am
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ignoring live television channels, the new viasat wifi is so much better than standard gogo in terms of bandwidth. Streaming video, Netflix, youtube, without buffering are totally possible. This is a sign of better things to come. I was very surprised at how fast the data streaming was on a flight last week.
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Old Sep 7, 2018, 7:59 am
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Originally Posted by rowingman
ignoring live television channels, the new viasat wifi is so much better than standard gogo in terms of bandwidth.
The current TV via wifi isn't (old) standard Gogo - it's 2Ku satellite Gogo.

Does anybody else read the citation of the OP and see a commitment by AA to finish the mainline narrowbody fleet TV rollout in 2019?
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Old Sep 7, 2018, 10:55 am
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Are these basically all LUS planes? I assume it refers to those 319s right? Not the LAA ones with IFE?
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Old Sep 7, 2018, 10:58 am
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Originally Posted by econometrics
Who still watches live TV?! (besides sports, of course.)
I watch Thomas & Friends
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Old Sep 7, 2018, 11:26 am
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Originally Posted by uscjeff
Are these basically all LUS planes? I assume it refers to those 319s right? Not the LAA ones with IFE?
Yep.

Originally Posted by enviroian
I watch Thomas & Friends
Nostalgia for Ringo's voice?
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Old Sep 7, 2018, 11:30 am
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Wow, live TV........... Something JetBlue has had for 18 years.
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Old Sep 7, 2018, 1:52 pm
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Originally Posted by mvoight
Wow, live TV........... Something JetBlue has had for 18 years.

F9 and UA have had it for years too.
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Old Sep 7, 2018, 2:01 pm
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Originally Posted by mvoight
Wow, live TV........... Something JetBlue has had for 18 years.
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F9 and UA have had it for years too.
Southwest and Delta also have live TV.

And on Delta and JetBlue, you don't need to bring your own device.
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