I just recently came back from California, flying with Delta Air Lines. We stopped over at Salt Lake City coming back from Los Angeles, stopping over at SLC to transfer for our final flight back home.
During our flight, guess what...
I was listening to Ayumi Hamasaki during flight! And it was only a domestic flight - not even close to a transpacific flight. And it was only two hours. (Great job Delta for making the flight earlier than on-time performance...)
What do you think - Ayu on my flight back home? That's really surprising, especially when I was flying aboard a McDonnell Douglas MD-90, a domestic aircraft that is out of production and is slightly narrower than a 737, and it's an aircraft that cannot really go transpacific on a full load non-stop.
Take a look at the "J-Pop" section of the list of in-flight music presented on my flight (the flight that I had must have not changed their in-flight music list because it's kind of early in the month, and usually during that time there are those so-called "media loading" times, and maybe they have not changed its list yet before we disembarked...). Maybe this might really interest you, and it's one of the more recent songs that Ayu released (no, it's not that Sunrise/Sunset single...). Here's the reference:
http://msp.imirus.com/Mpowered/imiru...sue=5&page=120
(Even they note that the channel that I have is available on
all Delta aircraft. How wonderful Delta could make...)
(The September edition of J-pop on Delta features Kobukuro's song "Niji", which is actually used in Japan for promoting JAL, part of an airline alliance that is Delta not part of; JAL is part of
oneworld, Delta is part of SkyTeam. That's really unusual, and I call this "no JAL exclusivity" here...)
(And even American Airlines, one of the most prominent competitors to Delta Air Lines, featured Ayu on their "Japanese Horizons" feature for August 2009 in their in-flight music, but they're only available on Boeing 777s which is used on select international flights with that aircraft, mostly flying to/from Japan...)
If you have any comments about this, as well as any past experiences of flying an airline flight with Ayu featured on your flight's in-flight music service, feel free to tell us.