Re: fuel cost per seat-murgirl
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Jan 26, 2007 08:19AM
Interesting point regarding weight...whether or not your estimated 96lbs is an issue or not....note one of Boeing's rationale for dropping its wireless plans.
Maybe e.Digital's sales department can point to this as yet another reason to GO EDIG, GO eVU !
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"The airframer also put the finger on the extra weight of a wireless system, saying that each seat row would have needed a one-pound antenna, while 23 wireless access points weighing two pounds would have been installed on beefed-up ceiling panels, for a total system weight 150lb greater than that of a wired system.
Given Boeing’s earlier acknowledgement of problems with weight on the 787 - chief executive Jim McNerney described it as “a dogged issue” at the end of last year - it would seem that this is the more likely reason for the decision to drop wireless and that the talk of 802.11n problems could be something of a smokescreen."