“Qantas passengers on the airline’s 767 planes will be provided with iPads for their inflight entertainment, following a successful trial of new in-air streaming technology,” Craig Platt reports for The Canberra Times.
“The airline announced today that passengers in both business and economy classes would be given iPads on board which they could use to access more than 200 hours of entertainment programs,” Platt reports. “The first aircraft with the technology installed is set to roll out in the fourth quarter of this year. The technology, known as QStreaming, will be available predominantly on domestic east coast routes and on flights to Perth.”
Platt reports, “Jetstar began offering pre-loaded iPads to passengers for inflight entertainment late last year, which can be pre-booked or rented on board for $10-$15. Using lightweight tablet computers allows airlines to greatly reduce the weight of their aircraft, through the removal of existing inflight entertainment systems that can weigh more than two tones. The reduced weight allows airlines to make huge savings on their biggest expense – fuel.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Edward Weber” for the heads up.]
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Two Tons !!!!! ???
What the hell are they using, gramophones?
If you’ve ever noticed the large metal box that takes up precious foot space under each row of seats – that’s it.
It makes me happy to think that not only will the entertainment be better, but bigger screen, and more legroom! Win win!
Cue the first class-action lawsuit filed in the courts of Australia to siphon off so more money from Apple.
MDN quote: …the removal of existing inflight entertainment systems that can weigh more than two tones.
I really love how the weight translates to musical tones! 🙂
In Canberra the weight is in tonnes. MDN typo.
It’s an MDN typo. The original article has it correctly as “tonnes”. (Anyone who thinks THAT’S a typo also should look it up-metric English)
The airline only has seven hundred and sixty-seven passengers?! How do they make any money?!
“The airline only has seven hundred and sixty-seven passengers?! How do they make any money?!”-andintroducing
The first line of the article says: Qantas passengers on the airline’s 767 planes will be provided with iPads for their inflight entertainment…”
It’s not a good idea to write a comment after only having read the headline.
Wow! 767 planes in their fleet? That’s a huge fleet. With an average of 150 seats per plane, that’s over 115,000 iPads. Incredible.
You funny!
There is more to the story: with this move, Qantas is battling rival airline Virgin Australia, which plans to provide their passengers with Samsung Galaxy tablets.
Dogfight over Oz!
That’ll be about 250 iPads per plane, Anyone know how many 767 planes (approx)?
Looking forward to all air lines doing he same.
As of May 2012, Qantas had 23 Boeing 767-300ER aircraft. However, it is reported that this year they will start to be phased out, replaced with Boeing 787 aircraft.
Also, you can get their inflight magazine as an iPad download.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas
How are they going to store 250 ipads? It seems to me that would take a lot of space.
I have an iPad, I don’t need another one, why can’t they just provide decent inflight WiFi and call it a day???
Qantas used to be a great Airline this is strange that they have made such a sensible forward thinking plan !
I heard that Quantas “anonymously” sent their main competitor a gift… Samsung tablets!
Apologies! “Qantas”.
I think this headline should read:
Qantas to provide all BOEING 767 passengers with iPads.
Obviously, Qantas has more than 767 passengers 🙂
That’d be awesome, since a lot of other carriers use Boeing 767s and Qantas would be covering everyone else’s fleets, too! 🙂
And if Virgin really selected Samsung Galaxy tablets for its’ planes, it makes me wonder what other cheap, cost-saving technologies they’ve adopted. Given this information and a choice, I’m not sure I’d trust flying with Virgin…just sayin’.
iPads good on ya mate.
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