Shock and horror from the airline that brought us a finger waggle that “Smoking is not allowed on any Delta flight”
For some time people have had to guess what IFE is installed onboard an aircraft. Well Delta has taken some of the pain out of the guesswork (and wasting hours on SeatGuru) and published a list on their blog (http://blog.delta.com/2009/05/20/in-flight-entertainment-survey/)
List of what has what installed (from the list, its the combined DL+NW fleet)
(32) A330s
(7) 737-700s
(28) 737-800s
(65) 757-200s
(15) 767-300s (domestic aircraft)
(15) 767-400ERs
(8) 777-200ERs
(8) 777-200LRs
With no AVOD/IFE installed in Economy class, but installed in Business class
(16) 747-400s
(57) 767-300ERs (international aircraft BusinessElite only)
Lets do a take-apart here. Delta have done a fair bit with WiFi on planes, and improving the product, but the mid/long haul traveller is… stuffed as the 747/767 International birds are deployed on TATL, South America, Australia and Asia routes. Also the DC9/MD8x/MD9x seem to be missing from that list (which isn’t surprising – although the MD birds seem to have WiFi appearing on them…)
As usual this is a good case of check what sort of aircraft you’re flying on – it’ll give you an indicator of what to expect. If you’re flying from Europe and need to be entertained, personally, I’d target the A330 routes first…
But thumbs up to Delta for getting the list out there.
