Airlines are revisiting idea of cell phones on planes.

[babylonsister]

Nooooooooo! Please, spare us! I'm biased because I don't own one, but they annoy me in restaurants, malls, etc. A flight anywhere can be stressful enough, but this would destroy any kind of peace to be found while flying around in a tube in the sky.

[mcscajun]

1. One word: Earplugs. Don't leave home without 'em.

I've learned to travel with them, also a sleep mask.

Have to agree with you. Is there NO Place we can get away from the damned things? I carry one, but I don't foist myself and my conversations upon others. Ever.

[TahitiNut]

2. They'd better have cell-phones shaped like suppositories.

:grr:

[madinmaryland]

3. If it does happen,

the airlines will probably charge access fees (I don't know if the ground systems will work at 35,000 feet) to access the cellular network. In other words, to use your cell phone, you would go through the airplane's antenna system and they would probably charge you an outrageous fee for the use of that ($5+ a minute would keep most people from using their system.)

[Patiod]

4. If they do, I will punish them

I travel all the time, and often have to draft reports while I'm in transit. The people who have LOUD conversations make it difficult for me to think or write. They are so loud that earplugs will not help. I'll find a quiet area of the airport to work, and they'll come stand over me and shout. It's possible to speak at low enough volume that you're not bothering those around you -- I've heard it happen once in a blue moon so I know it can be done -- but 99% of these asshats are SHOUTERS.

Now they're going to sit next to me and yell in my ear? I think not. So help me God, if that happens, I will read or sing or chant aloud at the same volume or louder so that they're incapable of continuing their conversation. If they gain the "right" to talk loudly through an entire flight, so do I.

God bless Amtrak, which has set aside "quiet cars" where loud conversation (cell or otherwise) is prohibited. What a brilliant idea.

[ProfessorGAC]

5. Please, Please, Please No!

Too many pompous fools carrying on biz now in a loud voice as if the entire world of commerce will stop spinning on its axis without their continuous direct involvement.

There is no reason anyone should think of a biz plane ride as anything beyond PART OF THE JOB! When i'm on a plane to get to a different site, I'M ALREADY WORKING! If it wasn't for the job, i wouldn't be on that plane! Besides, if i can't be out of contact for 2 to 8 hours while on a plane, i've failed already. Staying in constant touch won't ever change the fact that the failure to do the right things all along has already occurred.
The Professor

[patcox2]

11. Professor, its not that, I must ask your understanding.

Because your approval is important to me. I conduct business on the cellphone not because I believe myself so important that the wheels of commerce will grind to a halt without my constant input. I do it rather under protest, when it is absolutely necessary, solely in order to allow myself to get out of the office and have some time for my life.

Although it is true there are those who posture and preen in public while on the cell phone, but these people will find some prop to asisst them in posturing and preening no matter the circumstances, that is their nature. They are called "Assholes."

[ProfessorGAC]

13. That I Understand

However, if you have to fly for the job, would you not consider the trip to the airport, the wait at the airport, and the flight itself part of that job?

I do completely. It's no different than sitting in a meeting. I wouldn't sit in a meeting and conduct a conversation with someone else on the phone. I doubt you would either!

The entire trip is part of the work! It's not an artifact of the job. It IS the job. Perhaps more people need to understand that they can only provide the benefit to their company they can provide and stop trying to squeeze the water out of their own rock! In reality, i believe that people with a better sense of perspective actually do better work and provide more benefit to their firms than those for whom face time is the only discernable skill.
The Professor

[theboss]

6. Last night, I heard some dude on his cell in a bathroom stall

Taking a growler in a restaurant and having a conversation. Good times.

[babylonsister]

7. Taking a growler? The mind boggles! nt

[patcox2]

8. But thats impossible, cell phones don't work on planes, ask any tinfoiler.

Why, the fact that cellphones don't work (as in, its physically impossible to make a call) on airplanes is one of the fundamental tenets of the church of the "there were no airplanes, they were remotely piloted, the towers fell because of planted "shaped charges" in the buildings" crowd. You see, all the so-called cellphone calls from the passengers in the planes were part of the government/bushco/binladen/area51spacealien hoax.

[KlatooBNikto]

9. I thought you could do that when Barbara Olsen was supposed to have

made a cell phone call to hubby Teddy from the plane that went down in Pa. and Todd Beamer talked to an operator about reciting the Lord's Prayer.Is that a false plant? What will they think of next?

[ProfessorGAC]

10. Those People Weren't Too Worried About The Rule

That happened, but the people on those hijacked planes weren't exactly worried about whether they were allowed to use the cellphones.

In general, their use once the door closes for departure is forbidden. And that's how it should stay.
The Professor

[theboss]

14. Once a terrorist takes over, the rules go out the window

For instance, I would not wear my seatbelt any longer. I'm a rebel like that.

(I would also probably start masturbating, because I'm going to enjoy what could be my last minutes).

[KlatooBNikto]

15. I was referring to the difficulty of making a cell call on a plane at an

altitude of 30 K feet traveling at 500 MPH. It was my understanding that the speed with which you would traverse between cell towers would make any intelligible transmission very difficult. It is also my understanding that it is only recently that this transmission problem was remedied.

[flyarm]

12. they have been working on this for years..this is not new!!

thye have been working on this for many years now..this is nothing new..they need to know the micro wave wont interfere with the cockpit microwave to control tower..this has been being worked on for years..and everytime it gets close they shut it down..they would loose alot of money with airphones!!..relax!!

from a 33yr flight attendant just retired!

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