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Re: Delta CEO: No Voice Calls on Our Flights

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Post by codfrantic » Thu, Dec 19, 2013, 9:47 AM UTC

nisse72 wrote: post #29

bradleyjg wrote: post #6

Earlier 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

Dutch railways has silent carriages too. Most people don't notice / care, but when told off they usually move or shut up :-)

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&pr... (Google Translate)

Re: Delta CEO: No Voice Calls on Our Flights

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Post by jrs235 » Thu, Dec 19, 2013, 2:48 PM UTC

bradleyjg wrote: post #6

georgemcbay wrote: post #4

I'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…

One could always resort to childish antics such as cell phone crashing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA1J-raGinQ

Re: Delta CEO: No Voice Calls on Our Flights

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Post by JohnTHaller » Sat, Dec 21, 2013, 12:42 AM UTC

loceng wrote: post #5

sn0v wrote: post #2

Seems 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.

If it helps, I'd pay good money to have a front row seat if they had a section right next to the section where all the folks who can't wrap their brains around not talking for 3 hours are forced to all sit and drive each other insane.