The use of mobiles on planes flying in European airspace has been given approval by UK regulator Ofcom
Which means that UK-registered aircraft will in future offer mobile services; which in turn means that eventually such services will be rolled out across Europe.
Don’t know about you but I’ve always found travelling stressful enough, especially when it’s business travel. The only positive side was some measure of peace during the flight when you could possibly catch a few winks … which won’t be quite as easy when there’s some obnoxious bollox gesturing and waving next to you on his mobile phone and other phones buzzing throughout the cabin.
Personally I’d prefer the maintain the ban on mobiles during flight.
Except in very rare occasions, there’s no phone call that couldn’t wait for a couple of hours to be done.
So I agree with you, they should mantain the ban. Those who really need to make a call could use an airplane phone provided at a convenient corner in the aircraft, just like it was before they invented mobile phones.
Exactly, and even for business people who need to make a lot of calls, they need some “quiet time” too. I’d say many people will regret it if they start to allow calls aboard planes.