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Qantas announced that starting next month they will equip all passengers with one iPad. This will only be temporary, and will run this trail till December. They will include other WiFi devices in the planes.

Here’s the press conference regarding the trial run:

Qantas customers first in the world to experience new inflight entertainment system
Sydney, 15 September 2011

In a world first, Qantas will next month trial the very latest technology in in-flight entertainment (IFE) on board a domestic aircraft.

Q Streaming will allow all customers travelling on a dedicated aircraft during the trial the ability to stream inflight entertainment content to individual tablets supplied by Qantas whilst inflight.

Customers travelling on the aircraft will also be able to watch Qantas’s in-flight entertainment on their laptop computer, smartphone, tablet or other WIFI enabled device later on in the trial.

“We are very pleased to be the first airline in the world to trial this wireless streaming product.” said Executive Manager Customer Experience Alison Webster.

The initial six week trial of the IFE product will be on board a B767-300 and will run from the end of October through to early December this year.

Following the trial, Qantas will assess opportunities for the application of Q Streaming across both the domestic and international fleet.

Q Streaming utilises cutting edge wireless technology that enables customers to connect to the Qantas on demand IFE system, with their WIFI devices, providing Qantas customers with a greater variety of choice from a wide range of content.

I think it would be fun using a free iPad while sitting in the plane. Thoughts?

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oh I wanna try too :DD


I’d like to try this. Free use of iPad and with WiFi! LOL. XD


Hmm...interesting, very interesting. Wait, if every passengers gets to use an iPad each, how many will that be? :O And there’s WiFi as well! That is great!
Only In Australia? Aww~ I wanna try it out xD Only till December? Sad…
Thanks for sharing!


*Gasps* All passengers? How many iPads are they supposed to get to provide this service to all passengers?
But if they can do it, that would be great of course…
Thanks for sharing!



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