When French airline OpenSkies wanted to upgrade entertainment options
on the small fleet of Boeing 757s it flies between Paris and New York,
it decided against wiring its aircraft with a traditional seat-back
video system. Instead, it bought nearly 500 Apple Inc. iPads and
preloaded them with an array of video to hand out to passengers on
board. Rather than the up to $3 million per airplane that typical
in-flight entertainment systems can cost to install, according to
industry executives, the airline says it spent about $250,000 per
plane for its iPad-based system, which the premium-class-only airline
lends out free to all of its passengers. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443916104578020601759253578.html
on the small fleet of Boeing 757s it flies between Paris and New York,
it decided against wiring its aircraft with a traditional seat-back
video system. Instead, it bought nearly 500 Apple Inc. iPads and
preloaded them with an array of video to hand out to passengers on
board. Rather than the up to $3 million per airplane that typical
in-flight entertainment systems can cost to install, according to
industry executives, the airline says it spent about $250,000 per
plane for its iPad-based system, which the premium-class-only airline
lends out free to all of its passengers. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443916104578020601759253578.html
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