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Coffee? Soda? iPod?

by Erica Sadun Feb 19th 2007 at 4:00PM

For 50 pesos, or about $5, Mexican air carrier Volaris will rent you a 30-gigabyte iPod pre-loaded with music and Mexican TV shows. Public relations officer Alfonso Collantes describes how they went out, bought a bunch of iPods, and begin providing them as in-flight entertainment in this Reuters report from over the weekend. It's a lot simpler to implement than building integrated seat-back entertainment systems and the iPods are already deployed and in-use. Other Airlines may promise iPod entertainment. Volaris has already delivered.

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For 50 pesos, or about $5, Mexican air carrier Volaris will rent you a 30-gigabyte iPod pre-loaded with music and Mexican TV shows. Public...
 

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urzok

Televisa and Carlos Slim Helu are the principal owners of Volaris... and guess what? Carlos Slim Helu owned the 3% of Apple Inc... so he is playing whit his toys.

February 19 2007 at 6:04 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
therodrix

Volaris belongs to Televisa the largest company of media contents in Latin America, DRM what for?

February 19 2007 at 5:11 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ruben

Volaris is a fairly new airline, they have super cheap flights to gain a market, they have great specials, and they have been doing great.

February 19 2007 at 5:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Adam

I wonder if all of the content on the iPods have DRM. If not this could potentially end up being an easy way for a person with a laptop to get a bunch of free copyrighted material.

February 19 2007 at 4:28 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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