<P> Design issues for IFE include system safety, cost efficiency, software reliability, hardware maintenance, and user compatibility . </P> <P> The in - flight entertainment onboard airlines is frequently managed by content service providers . </P> <P> The first in - flight movie was in 1921 on Aeromarine Airways showing a film called Howdy Chicago to its passengers as the amphibious airplane flew around Chicago . The film The Lost World was shown to passengers of an Imperial Airways flight in April 1925 between London (Croydon Airport) and Paris . </P> <P> Eleven years later in 1932, the first in - flight television called' media event' was shown on a Western Air Express Fokker F. 10 aircraft . </P>

What airline was the first to offer in-flight movies to their 1st class passengers