Telephone Calls: Should They Be Allowed During Flight?
Effective immediately, commercial airlines may now allow passengers to use portable electronic devices throughout the entire flight — without the requirement for the devices to be switched to “airplane mode” — from origination gate to destination gate in this latest regulatory step towards enabling the ability to offer ‘gate-to-gate’ telecommunication or Wi-Fi services, according to…
FlyerTalk Poll: Are You For or Against Telephone Calls During Flights?
Are you in favor of passengers being permitted to place telephone calls during flights — or are you against it? Could it depend on your age? Although 79 percent of travelers greater than the age of 30 are…
Telephone Calls: Should They Be Allowed During Flight? It Could Happen Soon…
Talk about going from one extreme to the other — and quickly.
Within a month after the Federal Aviation Administration of the United States and the European Aviation Safety Agency released announcements to allow the expansion of the usage of certain portable electronic devices to be used throughout all phases of a flight — including taxi, takeoff and landing — the Federal Communications Commission is currently considering a proposal to allow airline passengers to place telephone calls during a flight using their portable electronic devices while the aircraft is above 10,000 feet in altitude.
Judging by this response posted by…
Airline Passenger Arrested For Refusing to Turn Off Mobile Telephone
A passenger who reportedly refused to turn off his mobile telephone after being instructed to do so was arrested by authorities upon arrival in El Paso on Southwest Airlines flight 1833 from Phoenix. There is an unconfirmed report that…
Thrown off plane for ignoring instructions to switch off phone?
Was this passenger thrown off her flight for ignoring phone safety rules? What is the point of those rules anyway?
lose that cellphone
How many ways are there to lose a cellphone while travelling? Lots, and most of them are funny.
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