"Mike NZAA" <no@spam.com> wrote in message
news:clncpg$upf$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...
>
> "thegoons" <thegoons@bigpond.com> wrote in message
> news:2u4absF24ps77U1@uni-berlin.de...
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> >> 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.
>
> Yikes.  That's scary.  What aircraft are those?  Can't be all of them, can
> it?

B747. JAL have the odd short-range B747-400's without winglets also, for
domestic only. Prob a cost issue, when you consider they run a lot of 747's
for dom ops; particularly HND-CTS.

>
> Still...Air NZ domestic flights have no IFE at all....
>
> Mike
> NZAA
>
>