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re: Today I learned wifi calling on a plane is outlawed in the US, but not elsewhere... why?
Posted on 11/17/19 at 9:06 am to CAD703X
Posted on 11/17/19 at 9:06 am to CAD703X
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But it was ok when planes had phones built into seat backs?
Those calls were prohibitively expensive, so in general, no one abused their use.
Posted on 11/17/19 at 9:18 am to GeauxldMember
Remember when they used to allow smoking on planes? If I remember right theere were flights that actually had nonsmoking and smoking sections, which was ludicrous.
Posted on 11/17/19 at 9:21 am to Cosmo
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A plane full of people talking loudly on phones would be miserable.
Posted on 11/17/19 at 9:35 am to BearsFan
As I remember the phones on planes, it was like $5 per minute cash.
Posted on 11/17/19 at 9:41 am to NYNolaguy1
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Anyone have a good reason?
Because I don't want to hear Shaniqua talking to her boo on speakerphone with the volume jacked all the way up during my flight.
I already have to deal with that shite on the elevator at work almost every day.
Posted on 11/17/19 at 11:35 am to Y.A. Tittle
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It’s one of the few windows of time remaining where you can still get away with not having to instantly respond to or be in contact with the outside world, and don’t need a made up excuse for being so. I hate people who clamor to close all such windows. Hate them.
As much I’ve come to dislike airports, I’ve started looking forward to flights for exactly this reason. I’m usually sitting next to a coworker or a close family member, all of whom I like but will gladly entertain themselves if any one of us doesn’t feel like talking. I can read, play card games or do puzzles with one of my kids, or even doze off if I’m tired enough—and maybe more importantly, I can’t do much in the way of work, coordinating events, managing people’s schedules, or putting out fires.
In spite of what we seem to think sometimes, the world will never stop turning because one person has to engage airplane mode for a little while. In fact, I’m convinced that humans truly need to be unplugged sometimes, even if we have to be forced into it. Commercial flights are one of the few everyday experiences left that demand it, and that aspect of it should be sacrosanct.
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