Jenn

I have 3 teens in our group that insist I find out which flights to LHR will have the
personal TV's in the seat backs. Is it only
on Virgin flights ? Cannot find it on United
or American. How about British Airlines ?Please help.

Thank you.

Nikki

I can't speak for all flights, but the British Air flight we took from Boston to London had personal TVs.

Clifton

American has them on 777's but not on on the 767 (aka 763). Depends somewhat on where you connect or depart from in the US. AA.com would tell you the model of plane.

sardog10

US Airways has them on their transatlantic Airbus flights.

Underhill

How do the personal TVs work if the person in front of you reclines the seat?

ms_go

Unless they have changed it recently, United's International 777s and some 767s have individual seatback screens.

bellairegirl

Yes. BA has them on international flights.

Underhill -- when the seat reclines, the screen is about 3 inches from your face, but fortunately the screen swivels.

Susan

taggie

Just to clarify - they are not TVs. They are monitors. You can not watch TV shows... only what the airline has available on their network - which is usually a decent enough selection, mostly movies.

It is a PAIN to try and watch when the person in front of you has their seat fully reclined (and that's for most of the flight).
And BA seats in cattle class are very cramped.

martytravels

Northwest has them on all A330s, which means pretty much all transatlantic flights out of Detroit. THey fly into Gatwick, not Heathrow, though.

janis

Any more, there are very few transatlantic flights that don't have seat back video screens. Most airlines are converting to them - all of the ones listed in the above posts plus 3 or 4 other airlines I can think of already have them and more every year. I think every flight I've taken to Europe over the last 5 years has had them (on AA, BA, Virgin, UA and USAir)

The have several types of entertainment besides a choice of movies (the variety depends on the airline) - video games, TV programs of all sorts, the sky map that shows the flights progress, etc.

Redrose

Continental Airlines have them on 767's. However, I flew into Gatwick.

Intrepid1

IMO the very BEST entertainment system is the one on Virgin...more games for the kids, more movies which you can start and stop when YOU want them to, etc.

sundowner

Underhill - I am 5'4" and it was very hard for me to scrunch down far enough in the seat to see the screen when the seat in front of me was reclined. That was on the airbus ATL-JNB. When they used the 7?7 for that route the seats in the upperdeck had the screens and they were much easier to see.

PLMN

Continental has them on the flight from Newark to Rome.

You can adjust the angle of them. There was a selection of TV shows, movies, music, games. Often the quality was poor as the movies kept cutting on and off.

The head phones were free to use.

Statia

We've had them on Air France, as well. Movies (although not on demand), music, geographical info, some television and documentaries (also not on demand), as well as hand held games.

suze

I've had them the past two trips between Seattle and London on British Air. LOVE them! (cramped conditions and reclining seatbacks aside)

StCirq

I've had them on all United flights from Dulles to CDG for the past few years. None of them swiveled or was adjustable in any way. Once I got an upgrade to business class because mine wasn't working, and another time I got a $75 voucher for the same reason.

rightted

United has them.

I unfortunately took an Aer Lingus flight simply because of a good fare, and wasn't surprised to find there were no individual TVs.

tcreath

As stated above, I think many airlines now offer the monitors on the backs of the seats for overseas flights. However, it depends on the plane. We are going to Rome on Delta next week, and neither flight going over or back has the monitors. Some of the newer or bigger Delta planes do, but apparently not the one we were on. Likewise, our Austria Air flight to Vienna last year did not monitors either. Our flights on American and Swiss Air both had them.

JP

I go out of my way to get a plane without them. Besides not liking trying to view something on a screen 6 inches in front of my face, I need the leg room and the seat back systems usually come with metal boxes (transformers??) that take up part of the under seat room.