I happened to fly on Air India's domestic flight from Delhi to Cochin, India the other day. Since it was a long domestic flight and I had nothing better to do, I decided to take a few photographs/videos and do a little review of their product.
I flew on an Airbus A319 aircraft that has a capacity of 122 seats, 8 of which were in the business class.
As I entered the aircraft, I realized that this was one of their new aircrafts that has Inflight Entertainment system available onboard. I stowed my carry on in the overhead compartment and made myself comfortable on seat 1A in the business class.
Their interiors are a mix of bright colours, with orange seats, red carpets and blue armrests. It was a clean aircraft and smelt fresh. They've configured their business class in 2 rows of 2 X 2. The seats were fairly wide and comfortable.
I flew on an Airbus A319 aircraft that has a capacity of 122 seats, 8 of which were in the business class.
As I entered the aircraft, I realized that this was one of their new aircrafts that has Inflight Entertainment system available onboard. I stowed my carry on in the overhead compartment and made myself comfortable on seat 1A in the business class.
Their interiors are a mix of bright colours, with orange seats, red carpets and blue armrests. It was a clean aircraft and smelt fresh. They've configured their business class in 2 rows of 2 X 2. The seats were fairly wide and comfortable.
Here's another view:
The legroom on the first row was out of the world as you can see. The second row legroom was equally good, and also had a footrest.
Below the center armrest of every seat is a power station, where you can plug in your laptop or cellphone for charging. It supplies 110V AC at 60 Hz.
The Inflight Entertainment System is Thales i3000 and is non-AVOD, but thats okay for a domestic aircraft I suppose. The PTVs are 10.6 inches in size (equivalent to an iPad) and is touchscreen. And no, not as responsive as an iPad.
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The blue screen above shows the flight details like
- Ground Speed
- Altitude
- Outside Air Temperature
- Distance to Destination
- Time to Destination
and it changes to a moving map display with different zoom levels every 5-7 seconds.
The IFE can be controlled by the controls on the armrest of every seat. Pretty basic, not like their international offering !
Click here to see the IFE details of their long haul Boeing 777 aircraft.
The headphones provided are around-the-head types and cover the ears completely. However, they are pretty basic too and aren't noise cancelling.
There were a total of 6 video channels playing:
- Channel 1: Hindi movie (new)
- Channel 2: Hindi movie (old)
- Channel 3: English movie (old)
- Channel 4: Regional movie (Malyalam)
- and 2 other channels playing short programmes and daily soaps.
The details of the entire Audio/Video programmes were available in their inflight magazine. You may also check their website for the programmes currently being played onboard their aircrafts.
I was offered a choice of fruit juice upon boarding, some magazines to read, and a delectable dinner to enjoy my flight. We took off ontime and landed about 10 minutes before the scheduled time of arrival.
The baggage arrived within 5-7 minutes and I was in my hotel an hour later. Overall, I would rate it 4 out of 5 for its ontime performance and lovely inflight product.
Please let me know your views in the comments section below.
Thank you !
