Finnair Upgrades Inflight Entertainment

Finnair has significantly upgraded its range of inflight entertainment.

On long-haul flights, Finnair is nearly doubling its inflight entertainment options, with a choice of 72 movies and more than 150 TV shows now available on demand in both Economy and Business Class.

Meanwhile, on Finnair’s new Airbus A321s with Sharklets, which are mostly operated on medium-haul and leisure or charter routes, passengers are now able to hire Samsung Tab 3 tablet computers at a cost of EUR 10. The tablets come preprogrammed with dozens of hours of video and music, as well as games and newspapers.

“Tablet computing clearly has the potential to revolutionize inflight entertainment, as tablet systems are much lighter and easier to keep up to date from an operations point of view, while also offering the customer a much richer and more interactive entertainment experience,” said Jouni Oksanen, Finnair’s Director of Customer Entertainment. “If tablet-based entertainment proves to be successful on these new aircraft, we will of course continue to evaluate the possibility of implementation across the fleet.”