phantom6294
join:2002-02-27
Abingdon, MD
 ·Comcast
| reply to moonpuppy
Re: Hardly Surprising
Continental still serves meals at meal time, for free. For airline food, it is actually pretty good.
As for the headphones... when I was 10 (back in 1990) and my family moved to Korea, the sound system on the plane was basically 'air powered.' Meaning... you didn't have electronics. The "headphones" were just tubes that the sound waves traveled through. This was an international flight on Delta; I can't speak to other airlines. So, I can imagine the "headphones" weren't that expensive. Contrast that with today that have normal stereo jacks (some have two mono jacks, to limit the use of your own headphones) in the seats, and the headphones, albeit still cheap in quality, are more "normal" headphones-meaning electronic headphones. Handing out headphones to nearly every person on every flight with a movie (normally about 4 hours or more flight time) can get real expensive, real fast. I don't blame them for charging for them.
BTW - I was on a Delta about 2 years ago and I noticed the headphones were regular stereo headphones with a detachable adapter for the two mono jacks. I bought the headphones just for the adapter... so now I can use my own headphones and still get stereo sound. |
