Over 7,000 iPads scheduled to land at airports
New iPad stations that will be deployed at LaGuardia, Minneapolis-St. Paul, or Toronto airports.
/ OTGOver 7,000 new iPads are scheduled to land at a handful of airports over the next 18 months, thanks to airport restaurateur OTG. The company has already installed 300 new iPads at LaGuardia Airport Terminal D, with 2,000 more to come. Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport and Toronto Pearson International Airport are scheduled to get 2,500 new iPads each.
The iPads will be located at OTG restaurants, where customers can sit in renovated seating areas. Using a custom browser, travelers can order meals, play games and check flight statuses, emails, Facebook and Twitter.
"This is a unique deployment that has no precedent," Rick Blatstein, chief executive officer of OTG, said in a press release. "We're marrying culinary excellence at the airport with new media. In addition to the content we are already offering, we see this as a significant opportunity for broader deployment of digital content from movies to news to games."
OTG operates restaurants in seven other airports, including John F. Kennedy, Boston Logan, Tucson, Washington National, Orlando, Chicago O'Hare, and Philadelphia.
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Given how much airlines demand government subsidize them in our so-called "free market"...
Naah, who needs to mention that when this is a waste of money and when any tablet brand will do just as well.
Blatstein is one shrewd mouthpiece as well. The more people get exposed to verbiage aimed at them, the more they see through the marketing drivel.