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Air France Moves To Matsushita IFE?  
User currently offlinethegivenone From Austria, joined Jan 2008, 137 posts, RR: 0
Posted (1 year 8 months 1 week 17 hours ago) and read 2154 times:

Hi all,

I came across this cabin photo of an Air France 777-300ER on Jetphotos, which clearly shows larger PTVs than in most other AF cabin photos I have seen.

The rounded corners of the screens, the three control buttons and the remote control clearly show that this is a Matsushita based system. Given that AF has traditionally been a Thales IFE customer, does this mean they have switched suppliers? Has anyone flown on Matsushita equipped aircraft? Is the IFE interface any different?

http://images3.jetphotos.net/img/3/5/1/9/49748_1314908915.jpg

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User currently offlineFlySSC From France, joined Aug 2003, 7313 posts, RR: 61
Reply 1, posted (1 year 8 months 1 week 13 hours ago) and read 1886 times:

AF has Thales IFE system only in the A380 ...

Quoting thegivenone (Thread starter):
Given that AF has traditionally been a Thales IFE customer

 

The A380 is the only aircraft type in AF's fleet to be fitted with a THALES IFE

Quoting thegivenone (Thread starter):
does this mean they have switched suppliers? Has anyone flown on Matsushita equipped aircraft?

This picture was taken on board one of the last B77W delivered to AF featuring the new PANASONIC IFE SYSTEM that will progressively replace the Rockwell and Collins IFE system in service on bard the rest of the fleet (A332/A343/B772ER/B77W/some B744).

User currently offline1337Delta764 From United States of America, joined Oct 2005, 5766 posts, RR: 2
Reply 2, posted (1 year 8 months 1 week 10 hours ago) and read 1681 times:

Quoting FlySSC (Reply 1):
This picture was taken on board one of the last B77W delivered to AF featuring the new PANASONIC IFE SYSTEM that will progressively replace the Rockwell and Collins IFE system in service on bard the rest of the fleet (A332/A343/B772ER/B77W/some B744).

Definitely a good move by AF. Rockwell Collins IFE is very unreliable.


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