"Mike NZAA" <no@spam.com> wrote in message
news:clh4bk$715$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...
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> "Smith" <fake@email.com> wrote in message
> news:41760862$0$14205$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
> > JAL is garbage.
> >
> > I flew from Brisbane-Tokyo and back. No personal tv's, poor drinks
> > service.
> >
> > If I go from Australia to Japan again I will use Singapore or Malaysian
or
> > Cathay, despite the extra distance this would entail.
> >
>
> This must have been some time ago, as 747-400s with PTVs are used on the
> BNE-NRT run now.
>
> In any case...how would you like to upgrade 86 747s in one hit.  It ain't
> easy.

True. Pity they can;t just hand out portable DVD players and a few disks if
they can't be bothered retrofitting seatback IFE. Can;t complain too much,
JAL domestic flights still use the pneumatic airphone headsets for IFE
audio.

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> Mike
> NZAA
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