Yes, Virgin Pacific, an Australian airline, has had the same sort of system for the past year. Music and movie selection menus are accessible. Trip map, video games, and reading materials are not accessible. Information about destinations is accessible. The app for Virgin is accessible.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone > On 8 Dec 2014, at 01:55, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: > > Hello, > > Just thought I mention this recent experience when I flew back from Las Vegas > to Vancouver with Air Canada. Before the flight took off it was announced > that people should download the free Air Canada app and that once the flight > was in the air, WiFi would be turned on and people with the app would then be > able to access the in-flight entertainment system. This airplane had no video > screens or headphone jacks in the armrest and the only way to access the > in-flight entertainment system was with an iOS device or, I think, you could > also download the app from the Google app store for Android devices. > > For people who did not have an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, Air Canada offered > iPad rentals for I think $8 for the 2.5 hour flight, no Android tablets were > offered – great advertising for Apple even though the ipads were not iPad Air > models. > > I did actually not bother with the app since WiFi was restricted to accessing > the in-flight system, there was no connection to the internet and I had some > good books from Audible on my iPhone, but I thought it was interesting that > there were no built-in video screens/headphone jacks and I wonder if this > will be the way things will go in the future. I also never realized they had > the iPad rentals until the end of the flight otherwise I would have liked to > see if the staff knew about Voiceover and how to turn it on or even if the > ipads had triple click home enabled. > > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. > All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any > questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a > member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators > directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list > can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
