{"id":288240,"date":"2025-09-21T00:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-airlines-dont-spend-seatback-screens-anymore\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T00:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T14:00:16","slug":"why-airlines-dont-want-to-spend-on-seatback-screens-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=288240","title":{"rendered":"Why Airlines Don\u2019t Want To Spend On Seatback Screens Anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nowadays, it seems that airlines are increasingly removing seatback screens and inflight entertainment, especially on short-haul and medium-haul routes. This is for a number of reasons, including costs and changing passenger habits. Let&#8217;s find out why this is becoming more prevalent in the airline world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airlines plan to remove seatback screens to save installation and maintenance costs as well as passenger preference for their own personal devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,1638,794],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-ife","category-passengers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=288240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288241,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288240\/revisions\/288241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}