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Re: Boeing's Connexion announcement

  • From: Rich Fulton
  • Date: Sun Oct 15 17:58:03 2006

and you will NEVER see this service again until there is a monetary incenctive to offer said service. So.. why is this still a discussion?


On Sun, 15 Oct 2006, Owen DeLong wrote:

This may be a nit, but, you will _NEVER_ see AC power at any, let alone all of
the seats. Seat power that works with the iGo system is DC and is not
conventional 110 AC.

Owen

On Oct 15, 2006, at 3:39 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:

On Sun, 15 Oct 2006, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
e-mail from the plane. :) Lack of seat power was not an issue, I just had two batteries. And this was BOS -> MUC, which ain't a short flight.
It's quite likely that on a grander scale of things, it's better economy that the few people who want to use their laptop the whole flight, do get two batteries, than doing the investment of putting AC power in all seats.

Otoh, more batteries on planes increases the risk of fire due to exploding batteries happening in the plane :P

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