Revamped V:Port on 25 aircraft by the end of the year

[Darren Wheeler]

Mind you, if it takes as long as the website, we won't need IFE as we'll just get 'beamed' to the destination.

Mind you, if it takes as long as the website, we won't need IFE as we'll just get 'beamed' to the destination.

But will we get an ice cream?

...why bother with the point of delivery hardware at all ? Why not just have a content server to which personal devices could attach?

That's a really good idea.... would mean that the tablet makers would have to play nice though B)

Think there is an app for that?

Mind you, if it takes as long as the website, we won't need IFE as we'll just get 'beamed' to the destination.

Well that would just take the fun out of travel... don't think I am ready to be destroyed and remade yet esp with VS tech record!

[Darren Wheeler]

I can here it now at check-in..

"I signed aboard this ship to go to Orlando, not to have my atoms scattered back and forth across space by this gadget."

With apologies to Dr 'Bones' McCoy. |:)

..With apologies to Dr 'Bones' McCoy. |:)

I'm a doctor man, not a Virgin customer service agent!! :0

Mind you, if it takes as long as the website, we won't need IFE as we'll just get 'beamed' to the destination.

But will we get an ice cream?

Or a pen?

Mind you, if it takes as long as the website, we won't need IFE as we'll just get 'beamed' to the destination.

But will we get an ice cream?

Or a pen?

Take the ice cream, by all accounts it will last longer than the pen ):

Problem is, how long before JAM becomes dated?

IFE must be like the latest computer or smart phone. No sooner has a model hit the shelf, it's out of date.

Not only that, but as higher specification tablets roll out there must be the thought - why bother with the point of delivery hardware at all ? Why not just have a content server to which personal devices could attach?

This is how one of the newer systems, Lufthansa BoardConnect, works.

https://www.lhsystems.com/solutions-ser ... nnect.html

Not only that, but as higher specification tablets roll out there must be the thought - why bother with the point of delivery hardware at all ? Why not just have a content server to which personal devices could attach?

Or since you're above the clouds, how about connecting to a cloud to stream music and video and games and social media ): !

I find this thread baffling! There have been many complaints recently about the way in which v-port is suddenly ageing, and yet when plans emerge to give it a refresh, we are greeted by a prolonged stocktake of VS aircraft! ?|

I welcome this news, and I hope that the content improves along with the superficial features.

There seems to be an awful lot happening at the moment -- barely a week goes by without some new development trickling out. It seems to me that VS is trying pretty hard to improve. y)

I agree, they've got new A330's with new UC seats, LGW 747's with brand new cabins, new IFE rolling out fleet-wide, new JFK Lounge and a new one at EWR next month, the best PE across the pond (bar Air NZ) and a few new routes (Cancun, Vancouver) have opened up recently too, not to mention Manchester domestics and possibly more LHR remedy slots.

Carriers like EK can't even guarantee you a lie-flat seat in J on all flights!