American Airlines plans new InFlight Tablet program for Flight Attendants

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American Airlines plans to offer more personalized service with a first of its kind Inflight tablet program with Samsung Galaxy Notes for all flight attendants. Designed to provide insight into customer preferences and real-time flight data, the devices will give flight attendants more access to information -- all from the palm of their hands. For more information, visit http://aa.com .
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AA would probably save a lot of money in paper, pens, and pencil costs by switching to Tablets, and they can send information to other staff with a tap of a screen.
 
Or delay planes because the flight attendant won't shut off her device :P
 
American Airlines' pilots use Apple iPads for storing Flight manuals according to http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57510069-37/american-airlines-pilots-to-use-ipads-for-flight-manuals/

AA is replacing Flight paper manuals ,which weigh 35 pounds each with iPads, to save 1.2 million dollars in fuel charges.
 
I think there are two pilots on a plane, so they probably just share one tablet with two pilots, or they have extra spare tablets stored away on the plane they can use.

I'm guessing Pilots probably read the flight manual before flying since flying and looking at tablets or reading a manual sounds dangerous.
 
Honestly I'd hope that there were at least some administrative controls to prevent the installation of apps and games from the App Store. I wouldn't want one pilot to be distracted by Angry Birds and the other to be distracted with Where's My Water? when they are responsibile for the safety of 100s of people at 35k ft. above sea level.

But then again, it isn't likely since Apple would frown upon that.

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