DirecTV no charge for elites or glitch
Mar 26, 2013, 4:20 pm
#16
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It felt weird being the only passenger in F who actually watched it. I was flying BOS-IAD in F. I could see that I was the only person who was watching TV as everyone else was sitting at the default CNN channel while on the ground, and nobody else changed the channel after the Smisek lecture.
Mar 26, 2013, 4:53 pm
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It felt weird being the only passenger in F who actually watched it. I was flying BOS-IAD in F. I could see that I was the only person who was watching TV as everyone else was sitting at the default CNN channel while on the ground, and nobody else changed the channel after the Smisek lecture.
Mar 26, 2013, 5:44 pm
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Cheers,
Mar 26, 2013, 7:38 pm
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I'm sure they get burned atleast a few times because of this. Maybe once WiFi gets installed on the fleet, they can perform live transactions.
Mar 26, 2013, 7:56 pm
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thx...
Mar 26, 2013, 10:39 pm
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JetBlue owns LiveTV, which provides the service to several different carriers including UA. Of course, on their own flights, on UA and on WestJet in Canada. Think there are some others, as well. Not that odd to have names change between a pending charge and when it is posted.
Mar 26, 2013, 11:05 pm
#24
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Yeah.. not like they have a record of who was sitting in any particular seat or anything...
I suspect you might get away with it once or twice but I wouldn't bet on it working for too long before they came after you.
I suspect you might get away with it once or twice but I wouldn't bet on it working for too long before they came after you.
Mar 27, 2013, 3:55 am
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This. I bought a Thai Chicken wrap on a BOS-SFO flight in January. My credit card was finally charged at the end of February.
While DTV is supposed to upload charges quicker than the handheld devices (DTV uses a system called WADL to wireless upload charges at airports equipped with the technology) they are certainly not charged in real time, and 99.9% positive United will never comp it, even for elites.
While DTV is supposed to upload charges quicker than the handheld devices (DTV uses a system called WADL to wireless upload charges at airports equipped with the technology) they are certainly not charged in real time, and 99.9% positive United will never comp it, even for elites.
Mar 27, 2013, 5:40 am
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I've never paid for it but I saw a person next to me get very frustrated. Everytime the plane banked it lost the signal and had to reaquire. He was watching a sporting event. And yes, he paid for it. Said he was going to ask for a refund.
Mar 27, 2013, 10:10 am
#27
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On Saturday from ORD to SFO the little bubble asking for us to pay never showed up, so I got it for free, which was essential with march madness going on and a pretty long flight. I'm a 100K but the flight was also delayed by about an hour, so I'm not sure if it was comped because of flight delay.
Apr 4, 2013, 7:54 pm
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JetBlue owns LiveTV, which provides the service to several different carriers including UA. Of course, on their own flights, on UA and on WestJet in Canada. Think there are some others, as well. Not that odd to have names change between a pending charge and when it is posted.
On my BOS-IAD flight, the FA did announce that the DirecTV was free for all. I was in F, but I could see that E+ was using it.
