Actually haven’t come across a remarkable flight entertainment system yet . The ones I’ve used on all the flights I have been on are always slow and have non intuitive user interface. A nice example is the KLM flight entertainment I had last week on a flight from Amsterdam to San Francisco. This deserves to be in the UI hall of shame
- Why oh why do I have to select between 3 versions of The Bounty Hunter why can’t I just select the movie and later on change audio or subtitles.
- Why is there Library I and Library II?
- Why do only some movies have the option to see a trailer?
- Why does the the system react so slow when you push a button.
- Why is the remote placed on the inside of the armrest? When I have the screen turned off it turns on again because I accidentally touch a button with my leg
- Why does KLM show a 30 second ad about their wonderful inflight system every time I turn on the system or watch a new movie? I just want to see the movie.
Leave a comment if you have come across remarkable flight entertainment systems.

Air Canada!
1. You can change your selection for language and subtitle options at any point during the film.
2. The films are divide into helpful categories such as “Action”, “Comedy”, “Drama”, etc…
3. Don’t think there are any trailers… just a quick text summary of the plot.
4. Not perfect… but reasonably fast.
5. Everything is placed in a nice and comfortable spot.
6. You win there… Air Canada shows about five minutes of adverts before each and every film you watch (which gets annoying after 10 hours of watching movies on your flight
All in all I’m pretty happy with the movie selection for Air Canada.
Air Canada system is horribly slow. They even tell you to be patient as it might take time to validate your input… (did I say it was slow?)
The ones I hate are those which stop the music when you watch flight info (some resume it when you leave, other don’t…) and they are unfortunately common.
I liked the one I from Cathay Pacific few years ago
Emirates has one of the best in-flight entertainment systems on the planet. It’s certainly the best I have seen so far. See Wikipedia for more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emirates_%28airline%29#In-flight_entertainment_system