Originally posted by manymiles
There have been a number of reports of gaming being offered by airlines on the IFE systems.
My understnading that there could be casino games as well as pub type fruit machines and trivia games.
Would anyone like th chance of winning some cash during the flight?
Or can anyone see reasons why this may be a bad idea?
Money making idea !
I guess it woudn't be available until the aircraft was over International waters to avoid individual countries casino laws etc ...
In some American States gambling is illegal hence the casino cruises off the Florida coast !
The cost may well be high as assuming that they charged your Credit Card for chips etc there would need to be a direct link to authorise the card from the aircraft !
That's unless you could pre order prior to departure, and then tap in a pin number to gain access to a bank of chips !
Either way the info would have to up loaded to the aircraft in one form or another.
Technically it might be possible as the LHR aircraft (And some Gatwick Aircraft) already have the ability to call from the seat at a very high cost which suggests that the air to ground link is already there.
