Jq 5 & jq 6

[serfty]

There was no screen to find. After boarding, and were waiting before takeoff (or possibly this was up in the air, I can't recall the exact timing), I saw someone in row 1 asking a J FA about PIFE, and he looked around the armrests for them, and the FA said there were none. My husband and I also looked around the armrests of our seats, given we'd flown in the same config 3 yeears earlier, and we could not see the PIFE screens in the arm rests. There were no gaping holes, but there were no screens in the armrests.

There was no "oh, you need to press this button" or "pull this lever" or anything like that with the pax, like what happens when you're in a bulkhead or exit row on most of QF aircraft.

We might have had 3 J FAs who were completely unfamiliar with that kind of plane config. The CSM certainly struggled with the video system early in the flight & read out very old arrivals information (references to the green form) from a manual. We could have also had a full J cabin who took them at their word, and didn't manage to discover how to get the screens out, including myself and Mr Katie.

Did you lift the flap at all to reveal the radio/tv channel controls? Was there a hole down one half?

Friday's QF3 was operated by VH-OGS.

If they were there, the PIFE screens stow under a flap on the armrest¹ , you lift them up, out and forward.

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¹ Coaster side, not the side with controls.

(Surely you did - I simply ask this for complete clarity.)

 

[Katie]

Did you lift the flap at all to reveal the radio/tv channel controls? Was there a hole down one half?

(Surely you did - I simply ask this for complete clarity.)

I remember trying to. I will admit I'm getting a bit hazy on the details now, as I've been on 10 flights since.
And it could be that after the FA told us that there weren't personal screens, I stopped trying to find one. I was astounded, but not that super keen to watch movies as soon as possible.

But if there were personal screens, why show the mainscreen movies on the ceiling TVs in the J cabin? Unless the FAs did that because they were unfamiliar with the aircraft, thought there were no personal screens when there were, and we just blindly trusted them and didn't manage to find the screens? Maybe the drinks in the FLounge had an impact on our persistence??

 

[NM]

But if there were personal screens, why show the mainscreen movies on the ceiling TVs in the J cabin?

Because the resolution and picture quality on the in-seat screens is so poor.