It's Showtime: In-Flight Movies and Oscar
It's the most wonderful time of the year: awards season. It all starts with the Golden Globes nominations, which were announced last week, and ends with Oscar Sunday.
In between -- for me anyway -- is a frenzied schedule of watching as many of the nominated films as is humanly possible. I never win any of the Oscar pools I join, I've never been to an award ceremony and my life has nothing to do with shiny statuettes. Still, for a movie-lover, a holiday season that's all about the best films of the year is an exciting time indeed.
So what does this have to do with travel? Two words: In-flight movies. The trick to being able to see the maximum number of movies is careful planning, and there's a trick to finding out what movies are playing on those long plane trips. You don't need to wait till you get on the plane and pick up the in-flight magazine to see the schedule of movies.
A shoo-in for a Best Animated Picture nomination, "Ratatouille" is featured on some American Airlines flights. (Disney Enterprises and Pixar Animation Studios)
Before your flight, you can go on most airlines' web sites and find the section with in-flight information, usually under the information, entertainment, or travel tools section. Alternatively, you can search "in-flight movies." From there, most airlines list which movies are playing on which routes. In general, airlines show movies on flights longer than three hours; many times, there will be several movies to choose from, all starting at the same time and playing on different channels on your seat-back screen.
All for your Oscar-season planning pleasure.
Here are links to some of the most common DC-outbound airlines' in-flight entertainment:
Air Canada, Air France, American Airlines, British Airways, Continental, Delta, Jet Blue, KLM, Northwest, United, US Airways.
So what are you looking forward to seeing in the next few weeks?
By Christina Talcott |
December 20, 2007; 7:12 AM ET
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Posted by: Betty | December 20, 2007 8:23 AM
fr Betty:
>Saw Ratatouille on a Continental flight last week! Got to see The Queen and Little Miss Sunshine last year too! ...
Never will forget, several years ago, I'm on a flight fr O'Hare to Sacramento, and they started a Jack Nicholson movie. Now, I like Nicholson alot, but they ended it, REAL quickly, and substituted a more "family-friendly" one, the name I cannot recall. I agreed with what they did, as right behind me was an unaccompanied minor girl, about the age of 12, that it would have been inappropriate to watch.
Posted by: Alex | December 21, 2007 10:23 AM
I flew United this week for the holidays. Talk about the exact opposite of oscar-worthy in-flight fare. Note to self - pack extra reading material whenever flying United. On the way west, they played Resurrecting the Champ (forgettable, but not horrible). Then, because it was a non-stop flight to CA, they played their east-bound movie "The Ultimate Gift." Wow, what a load of proselytizing junk. Family-friendly is one thing, but this was not only a really bad movie, it was a non-stop sermon. (NYT review: "Reeking of self-righteousness and moral reprimand, Michael O. Sajbel's 'Ultimate Gift' is a hairball of good-for-you filmmaking"). I was appalled. Of course, they played the movie again during the eastbound flight, but at least this time I'd bought enough reading material to keep occupied throughout the flight.
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Saw Ratatouille on a Continental flight last week! Got to see The Queen and Little Miss Sunshine last year too! (Makes up for the Firehouse Dog movie they showed over the summer!)