Qatar Airways offering New Interactive Panasonic eX2 Entertainment System on Boeing Fleet

Qatar Airways is offering its next generation inflight entertainment system onboard its newly-delivered Boeing 777 aircraft offering every passenger more than 700 entertainment options.

Rebranded Oryx Entertainment ‘Multiplex in the Sky’, there are more than 150 international movies, 150 hours of TV programming, over 50 games and 500 audio CDs for passengers to choose from.

Qatar Airways is among a select-few airlines to adopt the Panasonic eX2 system - one of the most comprehensive inflight entertainment systems in the aviation industry today - designed to give passengers the widest choice of interactive audio and video entertainment at 35,000 feet.

Passengers are able to choose their entertainment options either through touch screen seat back TV monitors or browse channels using handsets installed in each seat. The system has a unique onscreen graphic user interface allowing passengers to navigate in any one of eight languages.

Qatar Airways' first Boeing 777 aircraft is equipped with 335 seats split into two cabins. In Business Class there are 42 seats, each with 15.4-inch seat back wide TV screens, while Economy Class features 293 seats with each TV screen measuring 10.6 inches.

To celebrate the launch of Oryx Entertainment, Qatar Airways is showcasing the entire collection of 21 James Bond films onboard – from the first 007 movie, Dr No, starring Sean Connery to Casino Royale, featuring Daniel Craig.

Passengers will have ample opportunity to watch the entire collection as it will be available onboard throughout 2008.

Qatar Airways has also introduced a new entertainment section called Discover More featuring short, fun, trivia guides of How To…where passengers can learn, for example, how to tie a bow tie; how to pull a tablecloth from under a dinner service; how to eat sushi; how to remember people’s names; how to perform the perfect golf swing – and even how to cut a mango.

There will also be an opportunity to learn a host of languages through the Berlitz on-screen language guide and passengers can also read comprehensive books in minutes through the Executive Book Summaries guide.

In addition, there are more than 50 interactive games enabling passengers to either play on their own from the comfort of their seats, or with a fellow passenger sitting elsewhere on the aircraft. And a wide variety of artistes from around the world help complement the 500-plus music CD jukebox selection available onboard.

The new-look entertainment system will gradually be phased in across the airline’s fleet of Boeing 777 passenger aircraft as they are delivered over the next three years.

Qatar Airways’ first Boeing 777 will be deployed on the Doha - Washington route from January 2008, by which time the airline takes delivery of its second Boeing 777. Until then, the aircraft will fly selected regional routes across the Middle East.

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