LAXintl From United States of America, joined May 2000, 22024 posts, RR: 51 Posted (1 year 8 months 1 week 2 days 7 hours ago) and read 3086 times:
Virgin America in partnership with Lufthansa Systems plans to roll out a new IFE system call BoardConnect into 2012.
BoardConnect will feature enhanced generation of Red, Virgin America's inflight system. Seats will feature new HD monitors, a QWRTY equipped keyboard remote, and improved WiFi connectivity with scalable bandwidth.
One aircraft N814VA, now named the #nerdbird, will commence back-end testing of the new platform this month.
Kleiner From United States of America, joined Dec 2008, 133 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (1 year 8 months 1 week 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 2090 times:
Glad to see someone is investing when everyone else is nickel and diming us.
as739x From United States of America, joined Apr 2003, 5819 posts, RR: 23 Reply 2, posted (1 year 8 months 1 week 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 1770 times:
Let me rephrase to appease are Mod's here...
How much will VX be investing for these upgrades? As a carrier that has showed lack of profit, though as I said before, there may be more money then we think.
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col From Malaysia, joined Nov 2003, 2040 posts, RR: 22 Reply 3, posted (1 year 8 months 1 week 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 1608 times:
Quoting as739x (Reply 2): How much will VX be investing for these upgrades? As a carrier that has showed lack of profit, though as I said before, there may be more money then we think.
You mean they are hiding a wad of cash somewhere?
These new systems are lighter, easier to install and maintain, so there is probably a benefit in upgrading more than the release is saying. What makes me laugh is the comment that LH Technology or whatever it is called is a leader in IFE. Maybe they should talk to their sister airline about this, some sort of internal memo, e-mail or something only 15years behind other majors.
propilotjw From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 585 posts, RR: 7 Reply 4, posted (1 year 8 months 1 week 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 1534 times:
Great job VX! It looks like they are leap-frogging themselves to be be light years ahead of the competition.
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