EU About Ready To Allow Phone Calls While Flying
from the let-the-airlines-decide dept
While the US government has basically decided not to allow mobile phone calls from airplanes due to complaints from people worried about sitting next to people who are too chatty, the EU seems to be taking a more reasonable approach. Recognizing that the technology problems with calling from airplanes have basically been solved, the EU is ready to let airlines decide for themselves how they want to handle the issue. In other words, rather than having the government decree that people shouldn't suffer sitting next to half a conversation, why not let the market decide? If people are really annoyed by it, then airlines can simply advertise themselves as "mobile-phone free" or set up "mobile-phone free" sections.![Hide This Hide this](https://ii.techdirt.com/s/t/i/topclose.png)
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"let airlines decide for themselves"... riiiiight.
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Compromise with TEXT
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Seriously, I welcome this.
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Seriously, I welcome this.
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Pay for the Privilege of not sitting next to them
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Laughing loudly at someone's phone conversation generally gets them to be quiet. Either that, or gets you stabbed. I'm willing to run the risk.
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Becasue that worked so well worldwide with regards to smoking?
What we've learned from that little exercise in free market mentality is that the people suffering from second hand smoking evantually come to terms with the fact that everywhere they go they will find themselves next to smokers and the few places that decided to advertise being "smoke free" discovered just how good to business that is.
It wasn't until it became against the law in some countries that people stopped smoking - and even then there are plenty of countries where it's illegal but nobody cares.
I'm having enough fun sitting next to someone on the train who's chatting away on the phone (while I'm clearly trying to sleep). On a 12 hour trans-atlantic flight? No way.
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Also, I imagine business class using cellphones would be more likely than the casual person .
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Let the Airline Passengers decide
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you're all too violent
next time i sit near one of you sweat smelling americans i'll ask if the fat twat can be thrown out of the window.
you're welcome to attack me too. i'll make sure you wont fly again soon.
good luck laughing at my conversations: i'll be disgusted/amused by how ugly, fat and smelly your whole family is.
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Re: "let airlines decide for themselves"... riiiii
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Re: "let airlines decide for themselves"... riiiii
/Or you could discuss the topic, whichever!
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Re: "let airlines decide for themselves"... riiiii
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Nope. Not at all. (Note the sarcasm)
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Re: "let airlines decide for themselves"... riiiii
7 uses of you (or a variation)
Plus, you used 'basically' once in your single sentence. Mike used it twice in three sentences. Your usage of basically is actually higher.
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Re: Let the airlines
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Re: you're all too violent
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Just because the low end of the gene pool doesn't know how to "keep their pants zipped" and control their spawn on airplanes doesnt' mean I should be subject to some brat kicking my seat and screaming the whole way either. But apparently, that's legal (d@mmit!).
Duct Tape people...Duct Tape.
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Re: Re: "let airlines decide for themselves"... ri
D@mmit! Someone beat me to it!! ;-)
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Re: Ban on phones...
Amazingly (sarcasm here) that didn't bring the plane down either.
Although now most airlines no longer say that it will "interfere" with communications and navigation equipment - they say something about it being for our safety. In all likelihood it's just a CYA maneuver by the airlines to ensure the would-be fulltime headphone wearer hears all safety briefings and can no longer sue the airlines for "damages" (whatever that might be). My only problem with that argument (if it were true) is...What about the deaf?
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Ban the phoones?
I bet Al-Qaeda, cant wait to their mobiles on planes.
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Chatty Teenagers...?
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