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Home / Tips & ideas / Seasonal / BA High Life Chat

BA High Life Chat

May 23, 2013 by Gretta Schifano 2 Comments

I flew with BA to Orlando recently and was surprised by the in-flight entertainment. There was a great selection of films on offer and I enjoyed watching Life of Pi and Argo. I then started searching the options displayed on the seat back screen to see what else there was and came across this screen:

BA High Life Chat screen. Copyright Gretta Schifano.

Yes, this is a service offering passengers the chance to send screen messages to anyone else on the flight. Even if they don’t know them.

I was travelling without my children but back home, when I mentioned the in-flight chat option, my 10 year-old was very interested. I think that kids would definitely enjoy playing with this, and I wouldn’t mind mine messaging people they knew. But the problem is that if they do that, they are then agreeing to receive messages from strangers, which I wouldn’t be happy about.

So this means that on BA family flights with these screens I won’t be able to relax because I’ll have to keep a close eye what the kids are doing, to make sure they’re not being drawn into some kind of mile-high chatroom.

Here’s an armadillo I met at Busch Gardens in Florida. I don’t think he’s keen on in-flight chatrooms either:

Armadillo, Busch Gardens. Copyright Gretta Schifano.

 

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Categories: Seasonal, USA
Tags: BA High Life chat, British Airways, flying with kids, inflight entertainment

About Gretta Schifano

I'm a freelance journalist and blogger specialising in family travel with teenagers, trips when parents manage to travel without their kids, and 50+ travel. I also write about vegetarian travel, parenting teenagers, adoption, SEN, ADHD and anxiety. My work's been published by the Financial Times, Guardian, Independent, National Geographic Traveller, Lonely Planet and others. I've lived and worked in Italy and Spain and am now based in rural south-east England with my husband, adoptive and birth kids and our dog. I previously worked as a social action radio producer for the BBC.

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  1. fiona maclean says

    December 26, 2013 at 4:59 pm

    LOL I had to go and read this (saw you tweeting), What a funny idea! It does seem quite a good one, but with a minefield of issues for those with kids!
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    • Gretta Schifano says

      December 27, 2013 at 12:06 pm

      I know, I really can’t see the need for it on a plane!

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