Video: British Airways In-Flight Entertainment for March 2013

I may not give British Airways high marks for its customer service, but hats off to the airline on the information it provides its passengers.

As per the infographic we posted yesterday, over 41% of passengers will spend their time watching a movie during their flight. This is the highest percentage of in-flight entertainment (IFE) activity.

British Airways has put out a video highlighting the shows it has on-board its flights for this month, which include films 'Skyfall', 'Hitchcock', 'Silver Linings Playbook', 'Life of Pi' and family fun with 'Rise of the Guardians'; base jumping documentary 'Journey to the Centre', plus TV hits 'Peep Show' and 'Elementary'.

Another very nice offering by the airline is details of the shows one can expect on their particular flight for the current and next month. Just visit the airline's Entertainment Highlights page and enter the city pairs and out will come a list and synopsis of all the shows, cinema, television, etc. Cool feature, I must admit.

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Video: Virgin Atlantic's first Boeing 747 with new cabin re-fit G-VROM

Virgin Atlantic shows off the first of its "face-lifted" Boeing 747-400's G-VROM named 'Barbarella'. The aircraft features the new Virgin cabin interiors and new in-flight entertainment (IFE) system.

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List of Jet Airway's Boeing 737s equipped with AVOD in-flight entertainment systems

To most passengers, Kingfisher is the only airline in India offering an in-flight entertainment (IFE) system on narrow body aircraft. Not too many people are aware that Jet Airways has also has some Boeing 737 aircraft equipped with an Panasonic efx IFE system with 10.6 inch screens.

Jet has 20 Boeing 737NG with seat back AVOD (audio video on demand) IFEs and another three with a top mounted (below the baggage compartment) IFE.

The AVOD IFE allows passengers to have complete control of their entertainment options including the ability to create more than 200 audio play lists from a Juke Box application and access to over 200 hours of Hollywood and Bollywood movies, Regional films, and Television and short programs.

The AVOD IFE equipped Boeing 737s in the Jet fleet are:

VT-JGP, VT-JGQ, VT-JGR, VT-JGS, VT-JGT, VT-JGU, VT-JGV, VT-JGW, VT-JGX, VT-JGY, VT-JGZ, VT-JBB, VT-JBC, VT-JBB, VT-JBC, VT-JBD, VT-JBE, VT-JBF, VT-JBG, VT-JBH, VT-JBJ, VT-JBK.

The top mounted IFE equipped Boeing 737s are :

VT-JGE, VT-JGF, VT-JGG.

Most of these aircraft are used by Jet on their near international destinations from the middle east till south-east Asia, and domestically on their Mumbai-Delhi flights.

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