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Originally Posted by Steve Jones
will it have individual IFE?
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I would hazard a guess and say not. The international 332s use the Rockwell Collins system, which still suffers from reliability issues. I cannot see Qantas investing the money and heartache into installing the system on domestic configured aircraft. Nor can I see Qantas investing the money in having the Panasonic system installed, when they didn't bother with the newly delivered international 332s. I believe it would have been prudent to get some experience with the Panasonic system prior to the A380 launch. (Although the 767RRs do use the same/similar Panasonic platform for their overheard IFE.)
Even the Rockwell Collins platform for the overhead IFE on the domestic 332s was unreliable! I guess they will stick with that.
I think we would have heard already if Qantas planned to introduce something new for the new domestic 332s. I am just hypothesising - willing to be proven wrong.