Business Class
By Benny Har-Even in Editorial
Posted in Japan on
So I’m now sitting on the plane to Japan and my initial impression of the business class chairs is good. For a start I have legroom on an aeroplane, something I’d thought was one of the strange myths.
At the rear of each seat I was satisfied to see a display I’d estimate to be about to be about 12in in diameter but disappointingly was standard 4:3 rather than widescreen, which means pan and scan, rather than ‘as the director intended’, as purists are wont to say.
Before I got to play with the toys though I was distracted by the camera on the screens above that showed the tarmac rushing past as we lifted off and then the ground below us. Quite scary really.
Back to the seat and something I found odd was the pocket underneath the screen that was stuffed to overflowing with numerous items, including some slippers and, for some reason, a hanger. (It turns out this is for a jacket. Oh.)
It also contained a pair of headphones - in a bag, but the sort of bag one normally finds sandwiches, which I thought was a bit odd but presumably for hygiene reasons. Now, in my experience airline headphones tend to be an exercise in torture, but these, (Panasonic RP-HC150s if you were wondering), were actually perfectly comfortable.
To my further surprise they had a switch that enabled noise cancelling. This was good though not up to the level of the Sennheiser 450’s I had brought with me. The Panasonic’s however had the double plug that all aircraft headphones insist of using, while naturally the adaptor on my Sennheisers had naturally long been lost.
The remote for the entertainment system, that I discovered was called the MagicBox 3, looked like a double sided mobile phone
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Loading ...Comment by Ash - September 23, 2008 on 8:17 pm
You got business class???
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