RE: Worst In-Flight Entertainment?
I’ve not had many long haul flights, so my experiences of IFE are pretty limited.
First long haul flight (5 years ago), LGW-PIT, I was in BA Club World (on a 767-336ER)), and pretty much enjoyed the individual screen with 12 channels, I certainly wasn’t complaining. My only problem was… the main film on the BA flight was the same as on the connecting US Airways flight in Coach (757-2??) from PIT-SFO (my original BA LHR-SFO flight was cancelled because of the cabin crew strike). Not only that, but it was the same film again as I headed back with United Coach (757-2??), from SFO to EWR. After a few days in the big apple, I flew back in World Traveller from EWR to LHR. Different films, but I spent the flight walking up and down the aisle, as I’m not a fan of the seating in 747-136’s.
Anyway, two years ago, I flew AF tempo (Economy) from CDG-YYZ-CDG (A340-300). There were different films each way, but they were pretty lame.
The European companies distributed the headsets free in all cases, while the American companies all charged a few dollars, not for the headset, but for the adapter that was required to plug them in.
In August, I flew Swissair economy from ZRH to LHR (A321), and the screens remained down for the whole flight. They were showing BBC Wildlife documentaries, but there were no headphone jacks, so they were silent documentaries.
On the return flight (A320), there were again silent wildlife documentaries.
So, of the airlines I’ve flown, I’d probably say BA Club World wins hands down for IFE (surprise, surprise!), with AF the worst, although I’d have preferred if SR had just shown us the map with our position for the whole flight.
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