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I just got an email from Southwest:
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The gate-to-gate WiFi looks quite nice too. I wonder what the other airlines are thinking about this? |
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11-20-2013, 08:16 PM | #32 |
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Sweet! I'm flying Southwest in a few weeks, so this is welcome news.
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11-20-2013, 09:49 PM | #33 |
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My husband says United was on board late last week. No more "turn off your electronics" at takeoff/landing.
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11-20-2013, 10:48 PM | #34 |
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11-22-2013, 04:54 PM | #35 | |
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Careful, I admitted to doing the same on an earlier thread and got BLASTED by some of the holier-than-thou crowd. Guess I wasn't so reckless, feckless, selfish or such a horrible person after all |
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11-23-2013, 04:20 AM | #36 |
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So all you fliers, what are they actually saying/doing? Does the takeoff/landing announcement mention airplane mode? Are they checking?
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11-23-2013, 01:41 PM | #37 |
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Not all airlines have received permission from the FAA yet, according to my husband. He said on his United flights it's been OK, but he was on a subcontracted flight on Mesa, and on that flight they made the announcement to turn off all electronics.
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11-23-2013, 02:12 PM | #38 |
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They have been saying to use airplane mode. They are not checking any more than they previously checked to make sure the cell phone was turned off in your pocket.
I guess they're counting on the number of cooperative courteous members of society to be adequately higher than the number self-important jerks who think they know better than the avionics engineers and the FAA and so the rules for the common good should not apply to them. Not for nothin'. Just sayin'. |
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12-22-2013, 09:40 AM | #40 |
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read freely on BA!
with zero fanfare, BA is now allowing use of electronic devices in safe mode, yuppiee! They haven't updated yet their safety video/audio, but I've done it :-) and it looks this has been possible for more than a week already:
http://www.britishairways.com/cms/gl...oard_Dec14.pdf |
12-22-2013, 09:52 AM | #41 |
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Interesting - thanks for posting that.
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12-22-2013, 01:51 PM | #42 |
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I was speaking with a Frontier flight attendant recently, who opined that she doesn't see their management investing in the necessary followup stuff to the FAA announcement anytime soon. Sorry for those who fly them!
I did have to shut off my audiobook for landing on a recent Horizon (commuter subsidiary of Alaska Airlines) flight as we were to land in Seattle using "instruments" because of fog conditions. |
12-23-2013, 10:17 AM | #43 |
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That's good to know, paola! I was on a British Airways domestic UK flight mid-last week (i.e. after the 14th), and we still had to turn off electronics. The flight was so short though that I didn't even bother to get my electronics out and just entertained myself with their BusinessLife magazine.
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12-23-2013, 10:21 AM | #44 |
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No, you got "blasted" for your "the rules don't apply to ME" attitude. You may think that the rules are stupid, but refusing to obey them until personally instructed to do by the flight attendants is just imposing additional work on people who have better things to do than deal with people who consider that they're "special" and that public announcements don't apply to them.
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12-23-2013, 12:10 PM | #45 | |
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Of course I had other issues as well: a lot of people like treating electronics as little black boxes with little, if any, understanding about their impact. As SeaBookGuy noted, passengers were asked to turn off electronics during an instruments landing. That implies that there is some concern about active devices during landing, may it be due to RF interference or just because they wanted the passengers' full attention during a more risky procedure. Another thing to remember is that pilots and regulators usually know much more about the rational behind the rules because a significant part of their job is to ensure passenger safety. |
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