American Airlines is reportedly considering bringing back seatback screens on narrowbody aircraft, a remarkable reversal for an airline that spent years ripping them out and insisting personal device streaming was the future.
JonNYC added an interesting wrinkle, noting that American’s new Chief Commercial Officer, Nat Pieper, was head of fleet at Delta Air Lines during the period when Delta was making decisions to add seatback screens across much of its narrowbody fleet:
“On AA setback screens…the new Vasu Raja at American is Nat Pieper. He was the head of Fleet at Delta from 2009-2015 when the decisions were made to add seatback screens to 757-300s, 757-200s, A319s, A320s, the remaining 737-800s, not to mention on new orders…
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