British Airways to refresh World Traveller and World Traveller Plus on Boeing 747 fleet

This article is closed to new comments. Feel free to ask your question in the HfP forums.

• Mr Bridge says:

  11 Sep11 September 09:10

  what is this world traveller of which you speak.

  • Jason says:

    11 Sep11 September 11:33

    How you used to fly before discovering this site 🙂 🙂

• Matt says:

  11 Sep11 September 11:32

  Rob, highly OT but I just got a letter from Cathay offering me a 6 month extension on my Gold card – any idea if this is normal policy? I cancelled Amex Platinum a few months ago. Certainly not complaining!

  • Damien says:

    11 Sep11 September 12:23

    Same happened to me.

  • Rob says:

    11 Sep11 September 14:15

    Yes, everyone is getting this

    • Mark says:

      11 Sep11 September 22:13

      Just those that are about to expire? Mine runs until March but haven’t received anything yet.

  • CV3V says:

    11 Sep11 September 15:25

    Yes, an extra 6 months of BA Lounge sandwiches, chilli con carne and thai green curry (mildly warm food served after 6pm only, the curry may contain chicken but only if your fast enough).

• Lady London says:

  11 Sep11 September 21:46

  I haven’t understood for the past couple of years why any airline has continued to invest in IFE.
  Surely the way forward is passengers bringing their own devices and only wanting power? And maybe like OpenSkies, with an ipad or similar handed out for the flight to those who don’t bring their own device?

  • Mark says:

    11 Sep11 September 22:12

    The London City flights to JFK do offer exactly that I believe, and similar was also offered to F passengers for a while on aircraft with the old loop IFE system until they were upgraded. As a general rule though I would rather have something built into the seat which I don’t have to hold or find somewhere to place. It would also be difficult to offer the moving map on a hand held device.

    I doubt the majority of people fly with tablets preloaded with content; assuming/expecting people to do that is unlikely to do any airline any favours. I find it is a good opportunity to watch/listen to new stuff that I wouldn’t necessarily have bought before hand anyway.

  • Tim says:

    11 Sep11 September 23:02

    Ba would still need to upgdade the power supplies. As I rwmber the 747 and old 777 200s have empower outlets in wtp which I have NEVER managed to get go work

    • Mark2 says:

      12 Sep12 September 08:32

      I have only tried once on an elderly 747 from Toronto in First (via Avios but not worth the extra). I suspected the adaptor (empower to cigarette lighter) but since I have no idea where I could test it (other than in an elderly BA 747) I was stumped. The cabin crew were very helpful but since I use a CPAP machine I was not pleased.

  • callum says:

    12 Sep12 September 13:53

    Not at all, no. Next time you take a long haul flight, look around. Virtually everyone is watching the IFE and hardly anyone their own tablet.

    There’s no way I could store the range of options available on my tablet, and for the same reason TV exists, sometimes I don’t want to go through the hassle of finding a reliable internet connection and preplanning what I will watch later.

    • Alan says:

      12 Sep12 September 15:58

      Although interestingly some systems (is it maybe Air Canda Rouge?) let you stream the video from an onboard server – that way you still have access to a wide range of content but the company saves on a lot of the cabling, etc. that’s required for a fitted system.

This article is closed to new comments. Feel free to ask your question in the HfP forums.