Availability of In-flight Entertainment on AA Provided Device
 

AA has a website on what movies are showing on each flight and how to view them on a personal device.
I have been unable to find a website showing whether AA provides a seatback or other device for specific flights.
Mrs Jrobin currently does not own a device on which she would be interested in watching a movie and wants to decide whether to purchase a tablet for our trip.
She would like to know how many of these sectors will have a provided device and on how many a tablet could be useful.
January 30 YYZ-CLT AA 5336 Business
January 30 CLT-SJO AA 1707 Business
February 21 SJO-DFW AA 2436 Business
February 21 DFW-YYZ AA 1111 Business

Thanks in advance.
I am also interested in the following:
January 30 YYZ-CLT AA 5336 Economy
January 30 CLT-SJO AA 1707 Economy

Your outbound is operated by a CRJ-900 followed by an A320. Neither if those will have individual seatback IFE.

Your return flights are both on 737s, some of which have individual IFE but it's impossible to know before about the day before your flight whether you will get it or not.

Thus, I would certainly plan on not having individual IFE for any of the flights, and if you happen to get ot on one or both of your return flights consider it a nice perk. Only you can decide whether it's worth it to buy a tablet or smartphone for this trip.

I had understood that on some airlines Business passengers were provided with a tablet to use.

If this is true, does AA do this on some flights?

Thanks

That's primarily on the long-haul international flights where the aircraft doesn't have built-in screens in business class (i.e., the 767-300s). And possibly on some coast-to-coast/transcontinental flights that don't have it built-in. That seems to change with the times, not sure if they currently do. But none of the flights you list.

See https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/amer...expansion.html.

The app must be downloaded prior to flight. The device canbe a smartphone, tablet, Kindle, etc. capable of receiving WiFi.

You've already received an answer that you likely will not have IFE and tablets are also not going to happen.
With that said, I just feel it important for you both to lower your standards a lot. You're getting a slightly bigger seat with slightly better service.
But you're still flying "domestic" and it's simply not that special.

Keep in mind if you are on a gogo installed flight good luck on getting streaming. Most of the time I get no go on gogo. The AA installed satellite wifi will generally work fine but not all planes are equipped yet. I'd either download content beforehand or bring a book to read.

Are you referring to streaming from sites like Netflix / Hulu or streaming from AA's content library loaded on the plane? The latter will work great on any of the AA Wifi platforms as it's all streaming locally, the external streaming realistically doesn't work well on any airline's wifi.

Have your wife buy a book. Much more enjoyable.

I just download them to my Fire tablet :)

A tablet would be a significant investment to only use on four flights, although I use my iPad far more frequently than that.

One question I neglected to ask: is there entertainment via wifi on any or all of these flights?

A smartphone or tablet purchase will not be helpful if there is no entertainment to be viewed on them.

Thanks.

That is very good advice, AtomicLush. Thank you for that.
Mrs. Jrobin is likely to buy a device now that she may otherwise not have purchased for some time, primarily for entertainment on these flights.
She will be very pleased if the systems are all down as in your case, and she still has her own entertainment.