Etihad Airways expands State-of-the-Art In-Flight Entertainment Experience

Etihad Airways is now offering its passengers more than 350 hours of movies and television programmes, following a major upgrade of its in-flight entertainment (IFE).

The audio and video on demand (AVOD) includes features such as building a ‘video favourites’ list for the duration of the flight, in addition to more than 200 music albums, which increases by ten every month, and 70 international feature-length films.

IFE has developed significantly in recent years from its humble beginnings of one or two films per flight to state-of-the-art audio-and-video-on-demand systems.

Etihad’s new fleet of aircraft are fitted with the Thales TopSeries i4000 system which offers more than two weeks of continuous entertainment, covering a wealth of languages and cultures.

With the large selection of films and TV programmes to choose from, passengers can also make use of the ‘video favourites’ feature. As they browse through all the entertainment options, they can select titles from the menu and add them to a ‘favourites’ selection.

Once the favourites are set up, the passenger can return to this selection and make changes at any time, making the process much easier.

A world-class in-flight entertainment facility has to be delivered in an advanced format, which is why Etihad is so proud of the large TV screens and noise cancellation head sets that are available in all Diamond, Pearl and Coral zones on its new fleet of aircraft.

Every seat has its own TV screen, with the highlight being the 23 inch personal LCD video screen in the new Diamond zone suite ‘air theatre’. Pearl and Coral zone TVs are also among the industry’s largest at 15 and 10.4 inch screens, respectively.

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