Virgin America Airbus A320: RED Computer System
Virgin America will be entering the US market with an Airbus A320, but with an inflight entertainment, more accurately, multimedia computer and service system called RED. The US Dept. of Transportation has not cleared Virgin America for commercial flights just yet, but when it does this A320 will be, in my opinion, the best to fly in. Virgin America’s RED include movies on demand, pervasive music playlists, in-seat messaging with a QWERTY controller, touchscreen Linux consoles with games, food ordering system, and more. In the “belly” of the Airbus A320 are three servers that communicate with RED in-seat consoles and satellite connection. There are also WiFi-enabled flight attendant handhelds!
The display is a 9″ touchscreen LCD with a 1024 x 600 pixel format. The OS is Linux and Virgin custom created all the applications. For ground communications VA is using Sprint’s EV-DO uplink. Emails and SMS messages can be sent from your seat consoles by way of the USB joypad QWERTY keyboard. Interesting information abound as well as a video and you can find it all at Engadget.
VirginAmerica=AWSOME but 1 BAD emp#135101 name=IAN
There was two of us with ONE 75 pound lugage checking in an Over weight lugage in San Francisco (SFO)
So, I stepped aside to re-packed it, then weighed 68 pounds. Only to be hassle again and then asked to weigh my carry on.
The carry-on weighed 35 pound for two of us.
The pushy IAN forced us to check our carry-on in because that too was overwieght. Split between two people would have been 17.5 pounds easily.
My Question is “Did IAN have a bad day with his boy friend or girl friend?”
Doing a job you don’t like is worse than losing your job.
bochicawon
May 30, 2008 at 12:53 pm