Cell phone use aboard commercial aircraft in the USA is currently restricted to:
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[li]Pre-flight - Before the aircraft doors are sealed.[/li][li]After Landing - While taxing to the terminal[/li][li]Other - Those instances while sitting on the tarmac waiting to take off, often because of serious flight delays.[/li][/ul]
The poll is if you support cell phone use while flying.
Ugh! It’s bad enough when someone is yapping away on the train.
It’ll be just like when the Airphones first came out.
I’m calling you from the airplane!
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Yes! I’m in an airplane! We’re somewhere over Ohio!
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Ohio! I’m on the airplane!
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Don’t worry about the cost! I can afford it!
And of course, they’ll be yelling to overcome the ambient roar.
Well supposedly cellphones pose some minor risk of screwing up the cockpit’s electronics and/or causing some sort of havok with the cell towers because your moving between them too fast. If either or both of those are true, then no I don’t support it.
If that’s not really an issue though and they just say that to get you to use the overpriced phone on the back of the seat then sure - why not? I’m not really bothered by people talking on cellphones and in any case it can’t be worse then the screaming kids.
It’s been a long time since I’ve heard a screaming kid on a plane. However, considering I hear yap yap yap loudly on cell phones, regardless of the time of day or night, on my train commutes, I’m betting a whole ton of money that half of the people on a plane flight will be yapping and “can you hear me?!” and overcompensating on volume because of everyone packed into the tiny little space. And elbowing me while they move around while talking. The other half will be plotting the slow deaths of the loud talkers.
Yes, it’s different from talking to a seat companion - it is easily possible to whisper or talk quietly into your companion’s ear. People don’t seem to do that on cell phones.
If this idea makes it to US flights, I absolutely demand a thoroughly reaming voice roaming charge be imposed. Something at the very least as expensive (adjusted for inflation) as the Airphones were. If they can sock me $20 for my first suitcase, $10 for an aisle seat and $10 for flying the day after New Year’s, surely they can sock Mr. “communicating every waking moment” for a juicy bundle.
Besides, at this point in time, if what you do or what you have to say merits that you absolutely HAVE to be in touch 86400 seconds a day in any last acre of the globe’s surface, you will more likely do so by messaging via a Blackberry or similar device and NOT via voice phone. Create an in-airplane hotspot on the various bands and let the people message and e-mail to their heart’s content but keep 'em quiet.
There’s enough ambient noise on an airplane, and that’s without children.
Last thing I need are the LOUD TALKING LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY YEAST INFECTION/PROSTATE SURGERY/OOZING PUSS PROBLEM ASSHOLES while I’m trapped in a flying metal can with them and there are no rocks handy to kill them with and no ground in which to bury their bodies.
Seriously, people need to learn how to Shut The Fuck Up for a couple of hours at a time.
Having read the above responses I’m almost too afraid to comment, but I’d be in support of it if it were a text-only, no voice allowance.
I think it would be a great idea cell phone talking is no worse then the people who talk to their seat companion and I would prefer the person next to me talk to phone rather then me. Not to mention if they put cell signal up there I can surf the net on my phone while their chatting away it’s a win, win.
Yes. A million times yes. The assholes who get on the phone as soon as the wheels hit the ground are annoying enough as it is–the last thing I want to hear are their loud boring conversations throughout the flight.
ETA: I’ve never heard anyone on a cell phone speak at a face-to-face volume level. So that plus the noise on a place = a monumental annoyance.
God no. I hate talking to the person next to me, let alone listening to the person talking next to me have an inane conversation while yelling into a phone.
I’ve seen how DRIVERS act while talking on the phone while driving. How can I possibly want a PILOT to talk while flying?
(Okay, yes, I know most of the time they’re on autopilot… work with me here…)
No, few people know how to behave on a cell phone.
It’s bad enough on buses or such with people yelling into those things. At least you can get off the bus. In a plane you’re trapped.
No way, there’s nothing that urgent you can’t wait till you land. And if it IS that urgent you need to be talking to the flight attendant anyway
I listen to music or watch movies via headphones the entire flight, so I voted yes because I don’t care.
I’d like to text. Talking, not so much. I don’t need the whole airplane to listen to my life.
No inane babble for me, please.
At the gates, fine.
In flight, texting only.
Texting is fine, but I’m against talking on cell phones inside trains, planes and most buildings. Just keep the texts on vibrate or silent.
I’m with the No vote on this one. The daily inane babbling I am subjected to on my train commute is bad enough, the bonus being the fact that I know it’s a short ride before I get off and leave it all behind. Just imagine being stuck on a plane with hundreds of inane babblers for hours…just how many incidences of air rage do you think that would create?
Besides, quite often my return transatlantic flights are overnight when people are trying to catch a few hours of poor sleep - what could be worse than having that interrupted by the constant noise of ring tones?
Good lord, no.
Apparently people have forgotten that there was a time when, most of the time, you weren’t on the phone. In fact, no one carried a phone with him/her. If you were traveling you were out of touch until you found a phone you could use. You’re not going to die if you can’t use your phone for 30 seconds. Your business will not collapse in a poof of dust if you aren’t calling your secretary every 2 minutes.
STFU!
I travel a lot for business. Never ceases to amaze me the people that think that airplanes, especially economy, should be like 5 star hotels or something. Put on noise cancellation headphones and zone out whatever it is your neighbors are doing, be they 5 years old or 45 working the phones. Now, i do draw the line at kids making body contact but beyond that, it’s up to you to make your plane flight work.