"thegoons" <thegoons@bigpond.com> wrote in message 
news:2u4absF24ps77U1@uni-berlin.de...
>
>> 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?

Still...Air NZ domestic flights have no IFE at all....

Mike
NZAA