American Airlines has deployed 33,000 tablets to in-flight staff. Having started with Apple iPads, now moving to Samsung Galaxy Notes citing added security and customisation options

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Business Insider has an article covering how American Airlines (AA) is using tablets, one of the largest known corporate deployments.

• 33,000 tablets in total
• 23,000 are from Samsung, not Apple
• Most recent purchase: 17,000 Samsung Galaxy Notes last Autumn for flight attendants
• Pilots already using 10,000 Apple iPads in the cockpit

Reasons AA chose Samsung for the recent purchase (also considered iPads for the flight attendants):

• “Samsung for Enterprise” (SAFE) program, adds security and management features to all Samsung Galaxy devices
• Ability to customise to meet AA needs (presumably because they are running Android OS)

Details provided by Lisa Canada, AA’s Managing Director for Operations Technology