El Al exclusively tells DansDeals, that they have just begun installation of new privacy screens for their seat-back entertainment system. It will be installed on all of the airline’s Dreamliners within the next 2 months.
The new system was designed by El Al and has now been approved by the FAA as safe for use on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
With the new privacy screens, you will no longer have to worry about your kids viewing mature-rated content playing on someone else’s seat-back entertainment system. The privacy screen is designed so that even if you’re sitting in economy, your neighboring seatmate won’t see your screen.
El Al’s entertainment systems already have parental controls, but this way, you also won’t have to worry about what people are watching around your kids.
Adults also won’t have to see what people around them are watching.
At night, the privacy screens are 100% effective, so you’ll also get a better night’s sleep, even if your seatmate uses the system all night long. In the daytime, it’s not as effective, but it will still offer privacy.
The airline also offers prayer direction and times in their seatback entertainment system and even offers Artscroll loaded iPads, available by requesting one from a flight attendant. Bathrooms now even have ritual washing cups available as well!
El Al may be losing their monopoly on the US-Israel market on the Ides of March, but you have to love the direction the airline has taken since being purchased by the Rozenberg family over COVID.
Built-in privacy screens are a pretty cool innovation! What do you think of El Al’s new privacy screens? What other improvements do you hope to see from the airline?
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Brilliant!!
Pretty impressive. Thanks Dan for sharing!
It would be nice to be able to use the seat back screen as a second screen when working. Although, this could only happen now with the privacy screens for multiple reasons.
Would be nice to be able to plug in your own USB with preloaded Jewish kosher videos, for example, if you want to allow your kids to watch, but only preferred material. I can understand why that wasn’t allowed until now and why that still may be an issue/security concern.
No airlines allow that, due to concerns over what people would play on the screen.
Even with a privacy screen, it’s too much of a risk.
Yes, that does make sense, unfortunately.
You can probably use a relatively cheap tablet like a kindle fire to watch Jewish kosher vids via USB or pre-downloaded
Wow. So amazing all the things they have! I had no idea
Lol, was on the plane THIS week and thinking to myself……
Why don’t all the screens have privacy protectors?!
Also I was amazed to hear that elal has small cups in the bathrooms to wash the hands
I was dazzled to see those tizzy bitzy little metal cups in the bathrooms yesterday, chained up to the wall. They are effective for child’s sized hands but still a nice touch. I am thrilled to hear about the privacy screens homing soon/ My precious grandchildren are flying ElAl for Pesach and I was alarmed anticipating what they might see on those screens
Can they have siddur and china’s (chayenu) on the screens
Just love flying them. Hope the prices go down. Everyone should have a fair chance to experience the new Elal.
Now, if only they ended their Boeing-only policy, and started buying Airbus planes with 18″ wide economy seats, I would think of continuing to fly with them. As long as this is not the case, it’s back to Delta once they are back.
Seat width has nothing to do with airplane manufacturers. In any case, their flying exclusively 787s on long haul make it better than competitors flying 777s with 10 rows abreast.
It actually is related to the aircraft manufacturer and you’ll be surprised to know how much of a deciding factor it is when ordering planes, the A350 is 4in. wider at armrest height than the 787 (its closest competitor). Economy class is 9 abreast in both, It may not make a big difference in economy but when designing modern day herringbone seating and privacy partitions in business class 4in. can be a dealbreaker.
Has nothing to do with Boeing or airbus it’s how they want there seats
Wow love this! Wish all airlines did this, something that always bothers me on planes ..
It’s very difficult for me to fly with ElAl and airlines in general since there is no efficient way to wash negel vasser without walking 4 amos. Last time I flew I needed to keep myself from falling asleep the whole flight since my seat was more than 4 amos form the bathroom. Accidentally I fell asleep and when I woke up I realized what had happened I was going to ask the flight attendant for a cup of water but realized I’m not allowed to talk since I didn’t wash yet. I needed to spent 5 min typing up a message on my flip phone.
This is only the first issue! While spending 5 minutes on a flip phone typing a message, we travel way more than 4 amos…
I find the bigger issue of how to find a mikva on the airplane. Last time I flew I tried to build one on the plane, but the bigoted flight attendant stopped me from creating a water duct through the roof of the plane. What an anti-Semite!
You could’ve Toiveled in the Toilet.
It’s probably Tisha Kevin LOL
To the best of my knowledge, it’s more problematic to touch your phone before Negel Vasser, than to talk.
If you would know the halachos better you could’ve made a funnier joke!
They just get better and better every day
Hopefully their pricing comes down
Awesome! Now charedi folks can watch their R-rated movies without nosy friends or spouses judging 😉
All people, chareidi or not, should be embarrassed to watch r rated movies. Especially in public.
No need to be embarrassed if people around you can’t see it.
That is great news! I would also hope if it’s possible, that when booking El Al should try to assign seats that men should sit next to men and women near women unless it’s family.
Also a section for singles, could mamash solve the shidduch crises!
Maybe one side for woman and one side for men and a mechitza on the middle
Or a plane for men and a plane for women
Wow!! El al is my favorite airline in the past 3 years, is a completely new airline, i remember 4 years ago I would be willing to pay more and not fly with them, and today i would pay even 25% more just for the comfort to fly with them
I hope to see Elal treat people like humans,I recently flew them with 2 small children and I was delayed 7 hours due to “operational issues”. I flew 7:00 Am instead of 12:30 Am. I was forced to travel by day instead of night with almost no advance warning I get that they are on a high rite now and they are the only ones flying but that still dosent mean that is except-able to give zero compensation for such a great inconvenience. Tried reaching out all I got was typical elal attitude. This is not except el to treat a customer like this. Will never fly them again if I don’t have to. They are extremely greedy!
It will be great to finally have the us airlines flying again.
Kenny is great at this! Heard a story that when rebbi lost his tefilin they got ahold of kenny who got it found in half-hour!
Will the screens have BT as well to connect your own AirPods instead of their plugin headphones?
This is amazing! With all due respect, I would however like to point out that American Airlines had some type of privacy screens on their seatback IFE on A321T a decade ago or so…So this is not some sort of El Al innovation…
Link?
To be honest, I actually did two Google searches regarding this so I can back myself up, but even after going thru about 10 pages in each search, I didn’t find anything specifying this. I did however, come across some pictures in Google Images that may confirm this but one can argue that it’s the result of poor lighting in the image creating an illusion of some sort of privacy screens.
I used to regularly fly AA (over a ~7 year period) between JFK and LAX on their A321T aircraft and I’m 99% sure my memory is serving me correctly. I actually confirmed this with my brother- who used to occasionally fly with me on these flights- before posting this in the comments…
Have to imagine this would be documented somewhere online if this were the case? Did you notice this in all classes of service?
Either way, that plane configuration is sadly going the way of the dodo.
Yup. No more AA narrowbodies with seatback IFE…
Once we are on this topic, I would like to get your expert opinion on the following. Do you think that AA will ultimately hurt themselves with this ‘campaign’ of stripping seatback IFE from their domestic fleet so as to cram more seats onboard? In contrast, Delta and United seem to be in some sort of a competition massively upgrading their seatback IFE. I believe that they have both committed to outfitting their entire fleets (with the exception of regional jets) with seatback IFE in the next few years.
Also, both Delta and United are adopting fleet-wide free WiFi- United recently announcing that it will be adopting Starlink….
Absolutely.
AA has had brAAin dead management since the USAir takeover. Same reason they scared off all their corporate clients and angered TAs with boneheaded moves that backfired spectacularly.
Or as Gordon Bethune put it at Continental, “You can make a pizza so cheap, nobody will eat it.”
They are going to trail DL and UA for premium passengers for years to come. They need a new management team badly.
I wonder if they’ll even return to TLV. Amazing to see everyone make a mint on that route except AA. Just clueless!
Thank you for the insight. I like your way of putting it- “brAAin dead management”. 🙂
I myself as a mostly economy traveler prefer DL and UA over AA any day of the week- largely due to their general investment into an improved passenger experience or vice versa. Then, once you throw Jetblue (as far as the domestic market is concerned) into the mix- I can’t figure out how they are trying to position themselves…but I’m kind of getting bad vibes from them too…
JetBlue is focusing on leisure routes now, but I don’t think they are long for this world. They lost their way long ago.
I’m wondering if they had second thoughts. I flew this today. They did one a year ago and stopped.
AA slowed down the retirement due to Boeing delays. But they are still committed to killing off first class and narrowbody IFE.
Yeh, I don’t know if officially privacy screens or not, but I’ve been on a few planes where it was effectively impossible to see ur neighbors screen
Hope they improve their website and customer service (response time) too