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Delta CEO: No Voice Calls on Our Flights
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#42I'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…
I feel like the service would be spotty enough that it would only work around takeoff and landing anyway. I've accidentally left my phone on several times while flying and never had service. Not sure if it was due to the altitude/speed or just the fact that 99% of the land you fly over is empty.
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#43I'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…
I feel like the service would be spotty enough that it would only work around takeoff and landing anyway. I've accidentally left my phone on several times while flying and never had service. Not sure if it was due to the altitude/speed or just the fact that 99% of the land you fly over is empty.
As happens elsewhere in the world, this would quite clearly entail having a microcell on board.
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#44This was an interesting and quaint sentiment in 1993. Now it's an attitude shared by overbearing grandmas and hipsters alike. The culture police need to move on. I don't like loud conversations, but it's a jet plane - not a damn library. (And at least my librarian does not infantilize me)
I don't think that your librarian needs to "infantilize" you. You're doing a fine job all by yourself.
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#45Seems 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.
It would seem more fair to charge for the privilege of making calls (either access to a talking area, or a seat in a talking area).
But, of course it would probably be an easier sell to say "hey, pay an extra $50 so that you don't have to be bothered by asshats screaming on their phone!"
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#46This was an interesting and quaint sentiment in 1993. Now it's an attitude shared by overbearing grandmas and hipsters alike. The culture police need to move on. I don't like loud conversations, but it's a jet plane - not a damn library. (And at least my librarian does not infantilize me)
I don't think that your librarian needs to "infantilize" you. You're doing a fine job all by yourself.
Is that a new word for you or something?
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
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. http://www.sj.se/sj/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=189&a=34903&l=en
Amtrak in the US has Quiet Cars. I was once thrown out of one for laughing too loud.
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#48Charge a not-inconsequential fee for in-air calls so that people only use it if it's absolutely necessary. Perhaps make the charge go up exponentially with time so that calls remain brief.
That's exactly how it used to be with the in-flight air phones (except the exponential part, it wasn't needed with calls costing $10 a minute).
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#49If you are dying to talk on a plane (unless it's an emergency), please use this to respect the comfort of other passengers.
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Re: Delta CEO: No Voice Calls on Our Flights
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
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. http://www.sj.se/sj/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=189&a=34903&l=en
In my experience (every day for 14 months in the quiet section), some people don't give a rat's ass though, and ignore the signs and plaques. It wasn't uncommon to see/hear sub 10-yo kids there either, and woe unto you if you attempt to explain to the parent that they are sitting in a quiet section. The ultimate fault is of course on SJ for not making it more obvious that the booked seats are in the quiet section during the booking process, however.