Flights should be like movie theaters when it comes to using your phone. Don't spoil the ambiance for everyone with your chatter. A message is fine. But for voice, kindly step out.
Delta CEO: No Voice Calls on Our Flights
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#22Seems to me like most airlines stand to gain a lot of money by creating new sections that allow for talking within the planes, and ones that don't. People would probably pay extra for the latter.
Not sure you can really do that. Even if it's a space with 4-8 seats sectioned off. If they're all planning on talking on the phone, I could see that being annoying for eachother. Otherwise if they were completely sealed off sections, they'd be charging a small fortune to compensate for the lost seat revenue.
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#23This is a huge advantage when you're trying to win business from curmudgeons like me.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
That talking on the phone or the train or the bus is rude isn't some quaint notion that is going to go away. It's very grating to listen to a lot of one sided conversations, and planes are places that a lot of people like to sleep.
Yes, and traffic is annoying too. I nonetheless want to have motorized vehicles. I'd similarly like to use my cellphone and want for other adults to make that decision for themselves. If other people irritate me, then I'll go buy some earplugs. But really, it's a jet plane. Jet engines are really quite loud. Who expects silence on a plane? (nevermind the crying babies, captain announcements, odd two-sided conversatio…
And I'd really like to travel without the annoyance of hearing other passengers loudly talking on the phone next to me. An airline that enforced a no phone call policy would be more desirable to me, all things being equal. Perhaps some will allow it and some won't, and we all can have choices. Also, jet engine being loud not the same as distinctly loud talking. More like a uniform white noise that does not prevent sleeping.
Ultimately I think it just comes down to consideration for others and not being irritating during a long uncomfortable plane ride. I would presume most people would prefer to not listen to others talking and prefer silence. Therefore I think it's just inconsiderate to carry on a loud conversation within a plane where people are forced to have to put up with it and can't avoid the irritation.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
That talking on the phone or the train or the bus is rude isn't some quaint notion that is going to go away. It's very grating to listen to a lot of one sided conversations, and planes are places that a lot of people like to sleep.
Yes, and traffic is annoying too. I nonetheless want to have motorized vehicles. I'd similarly like to use my cellphone and want for other adults to make that decision for themselves. If other people irritate me, then I'll go buy some earplugs. But really, it's a jet plane. Jet engines are really quite loud. Who expects silence on a plane? (nevermind the crying babies, captain announcements, odd two-sided conversatio…
There's a very large difference between white noise and conversation. I'm pretty surprised that I have to point that out. Then again, you're arguing that we should become less considerate as a society.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, and traffic is annoying too. I nonetheless want to have motorized vehicles. I'd similarly like to use my cellphone and want for other adults to make that decision for themselves. If other people irritate me, then I'll go buy some earplugs. But really, it's a jet plane. Jet engines are really quite loud. Who expects silence on a plane? (nevermind the crying babies, captain announcements, odd two-sided conversatio…
And I'd really like to travel without the annoyance of hearing other passengers loudly talking on the phone next to me. An airline that enforced a no phone call policy would be more desirable to me, all things being equal. Perhaps some will allow it and some won't, and we all can have choices. Also, jet engine being loud not the same as distinctly loud talking. More like a uniform white noise that does not prevent sl…
Yeah, you're right about the choices. (However, I suspect that Delta's position is bad business in the long run.)
This just seems like such a dated and irrelevant stand for Delta to take. Cellphones are here to stay. We live in crowded spaces and it's time for everyone to simply get used to the sound of other humans.
I have no idea why everyone places value on public silence. Is this a holdover cultural strain from the 19th century? Silence is so cheap and so easy to obtain. (And who wants to be the one to make rules which essentially say "shhhh!")
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#27Flights should be like movie theaters when it comes to using your phone. Don't spoil the ambiance for everyone with your chatter. A message is fine. But for voice, kindly step out.
Step out of the plane ? :)
More seriously, if people have to move to make a call, this will cause a mess in the economy section, where seats are narrow and you need to step on people's feet to move around. And that will make the job of air hostesses way harder when it comes to moving around with their carts, too.
There's hardly a good way to do that in a plane.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, and traffic is annoying too. I nonetheless want to have motorized vehicles. I'd similarly like to use my cellphone and want for other adults to make that decision for themselves. If other people irritate me, then I'll go buy some earplugs. But really, it's a jet plane. Jet engines are really quite loud. Who expects silence on a plane? (nevermind the crying babies, captain announcements, odd two-sided conversatio…
There's a very large difference between white noise and conversation. I'm pretty surprised that I have to point that out. Then again, you're arguing that we should become less considerate as a society.
Or perhaps that the silence mongers should become more considerate.
And white noise tends to drown out human voices. I'm pretty surprised that I have to point that out.
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#29I'm not a big fan of people who are always on their phones but I don't think disallowing them on planes really solves any actual real world problem. Those chatterboxes who need to be talking will just continue to annoy the stranger sitting next to them or chatterbox with their friend sitting next to them if they are travelling in a group. Either way I need to filter them out with headphones or whatever. And while I h…
The guy behind me on the train this morming was traveling by himself. Other than the 15 minutes he spent loudly participating in a settlement conference call (violating client confidentiality I might add) he was perfectly quiet. There was no evidence that he was a compulsive chatterbox, he just found it convienient to take a call right then and didn't care how many people he bothered. While it is true that other peop…
If you'd been travelling with SJ (Swedish railway) you could have chosen a quiet section, where cell phones are expected to be turned off and even conversations are discouraged.
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#30Flights should be like movie theaters when it comes to using your phone. Don't spoil the ambiance for everyone with your chatter. A message is fine. But for voice, kindly step out.
Ahh, the lovely ambiance of a passenger plane.