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I have just read an article No more airplane mode? EU to allow calls on flights whereby EU would allow mobile phone calls on a plane.
I really hope airline companies do not go down this route. It would be a nightmare with people speaking all the time disturbing passengers from resting, especially on long haul flights. Air rage would increase dramatically.
Can't you just see the air steward on the phone whilst you are signalling for assistance? That would not happen, you might say but it happens a lot in pubs!
I guess an acceptable solution could be a halfway house i.e. airplane plus text mode i.e. you could make texts only but no calls or data (to avoid whatsapp type of apps) but this would require the phone manufacturers to modify phones.
Another option would be to segregate seats with a barrier between them and if you wish to use a phone, you have to pay a huge premium for those seats. The non phone section would not charge a premium but would be in a Faraday Cage to prevent users cheating. Older ones of us will always remember the belligerent person smoking in no smoking carriages of trains.
My preferred solution would be to install a sound insulated telephone booth but make the rest of the plane a giant Faraday Cage. Of course the phone booth would cost at least £10 per minute to use, and after 5 minutes, the user is ejected from the plane James Bond Style with the floor opening up if they do not vacate in 30 seconds, so others queueing do not get held up creating more passenger disturbance.
I really hope airline companies do not go down this route. It would be a nightmare with people speaking all the time disturbing passengers from resting, especially on long haul flights. Air rage would increase dramatically.
Can't you just see the air steward on the phone whilst you are signalling for assistance? That would not happen, you might say but it happens a lot in pubs!
I guess an acceptable solution could be a halfway house i.e. airplane plus text mode i.e. you could make texts only but no calls or data (to avoid whatsapp type of apps) but this would require the phone manufacturers to modify phones.
Another option would be to segregate seats with a barrier between them and if you wish to use a phone, you have to pay a huge premium for those seats. The non phone section would not charge a premium but would be in a Faraday Cage to prevent users cheating. Older ones of us will always remember the belligerent person smoking in no smoking carriages of trains.
My preferred solution would be to install a sound insulated telephone booth but make the rest of the plane a giant Faraday Cage. Of course the phone booth would cost at least £10 per minute to use, and after 5 minutes, the user is ejected from the plane James Bond Style with the floor opening up if they do not vacate in 30 seconds, so others queueing do not get held up creating more passenger disturbance.
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