Current Southwest Electronics Policy

[Bianca and Bernard]

I have a flight to LAX coming up next month with a connection at DAL. Most of the Southwest website info seems to deal with tablets and tablet-like mobile phones, but I would like to use a portable DVD player with a 8.5-inch screen during the flight. It's over ten years old, but somewhat to my surprise, it still works. Is that considered acceptable? Do I have to wait for 10,000 feet or whatever it is, before I can use it? According to the owner's manual, it weighs about 2.1 pounds including the battery.

For people who use tablets, is it possible to pre-load movies into the tablet so that wireless connectivity is not needed to watch them? I notice that Southwest had some cautionary language about bandwidth-hogging movie sites, and even sites that aren't restricted/banned, they charge for. I have never owned a tablet and am not sure whether, as a practical matter, streaming service is required in order to watch movies. If it's not required, I might look into getting one.

We preload both the Kindles and the Ipad with movies and tv shows, from Netflix and Amazon.

 

[MakiraMarlena]

I upload films to my Ipad all the time. remember that movies take up a lot of space. If you have a 16GB tablet, only a couple of movies will take up a lot of it.

You can bring the DVD player but under current procedures it will have to come out of your bag when you go through security, and with that weight, you will need to keep it stowed during takeoff and landing.