Delta CEO: No Voice Calls on Our Flights
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Delta CEO: No Voice Calls on Our Flights
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#2Seems 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.
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#3When did all customers become "users". Delta has passengers. Delta has customers. They do not have users.
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#4I'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 have no interest in spending the majority of even a short flight talking on phones, it would sometimes be very convenient to be able to make a quick call to someone waiting at the airport 10 minutes before a flight lands or something like that. Throwing out that sort of convenience to get rid of a distraction like someone talking on their phone in an environment that is already inherently full of really loud sound distractions seems like a silly move to me.
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#5Seems 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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#6I'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 people have been very annoying on the train by talking to each other it is not true that banning telephone calls would have no salutary effect.
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#7Seems 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.
Way to make the whole flying experience even more awesome.
I'm all for booths though, where you could isolate yourself if you really need to call and where calls would be limited in duration.
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#8I'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…
Hearing only half a conversation is actually more grating than hearing a full conversation according to research (and my own personal experience):
http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2010/09/03/095679761038...
http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=its...
And if flights are anything like Amtrak, people WILL take the opportunity to have 3 hour phone conversations when they're on a trip if they can.
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#9Charge 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.
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#10My favorite instances of transit chatterboxes have occurred in Italy. Pedestrians and those on trains, on their phone and very "vocal" with their hand gestures. It made for amusing people watching.
Personally, I don't care either way about voice calls on flights at this point. Aside from when my wife and I are traveling and trying to converse, I am usually fully checked out with my in ear monitors and music/video, so I rarely hear much -- I have to remove the IEM to interact w/ airline staff for things like drinks, food, etc.