Airplane cell phone calls won’t be allowed in US any time soon

About now United will be wishing cell phones were all banned from aircraft.

Thank God. But I can hardly believe it -- a government official made a decision that is based on common sense!

"Could be annoying"? Why don't the regulators sit next to someone who won't get off the phone on a six-hour cross country flight first before saying this "could" be annoying. Quite honestly, I would probably never fly again if faced with that prospect.

Good!

Thank goodness, thereis enough stress onthese planes without hearing others toliet schedules with their bff..

I remember a flight in the early 90s on one of the DC to La Guardia shuttles when a loud guy in a suit got on the plane talking on his cell phone, sat down next to me, said "hold on, I need to switch phones" and grabbed the GTE Airphone in the center seat. He talked on that thing the entire flight, and as soon as he could at the other end, he switched back to the cell phone. It was very annoying. I think that was the only time I ever saw someone use one of those phones.

Thank Good.. Good to hear... I do not want be sitting around someone on the phone all that time... that is BS.

It's the annoyance factor rather than flight safety that is more relevant now that we have already determined that cells don't impact flights. Can you imagine sitting next to someone yapping on their cellphone for hours? Would want to make you throw them off airplane!

This kinda follows along the same lines as "child-free" zones, and now "phone-free" zones.
Guessing the next will be "paying-passenger-free" zones.

Good. I still think all the "interference" concerns are mostly malarkey. Planes regularly have 150-300 people on them every trip, and we all know that none of us go to airplane mode until we're lifting off and the cell signal cuts out at a few hundred feet. If those 150-300 phone signals aren't messing with the systems on the ground, they're not going to mess with them in flight. And how many of us have sat next to a passenger whose phone gets a half dozen alerts on short final as you cross the runway threshold and touchdown, and they look a bit startled because they forgot they didn't even turn on airplane mode? Leaving their phone on didn't crash the plane. And I always used to roll my eyes a bit when the speech was given about "phones must be placed in airplane mode when the cabin door is closed," as if that small opening somehow prevented cell signals from doign anything heinous. I digress, but the reason is because I'm glad steps are being taken to finally approve the use of PEDs onboard. Using onboard wifi networks to stream the Airline's media library, being able to browse and work online, and send messages to whomever are all good things. Talking on the phone, however, is not. It's bad enough when you're seated near a chatty passenger or crying child, because even noise canceling headphones don't block that. I'm not envisioning 100 people on their phones simultaneously, but I'm envisioning ringtones going off all the time, people who always answer the phones, people who get bored and call someone, etc etc etc. This should be the one thing you can't do on your phone on a plane.

I remember a long time ago, I used to use my laptop and headphones to Watch "Air Crash Investigation" ... Great program... Fun to watch on a plane LOL! :)

For awhile in the 90's seat backs had phones you could swipe your credit card in to make calls.

I'm happy to hear this. I've been on a flight where one woman was constantly yaking to her friend. Although I think her friend was annoyed as well keep those type of people off an enclosed space. Cell phones would be more annoying.

good...

GOOD NEWS!