V-Flyer

I am flying on the vs015 to orlando on 9th August. My sister is flying on vs075 from mancester on the same day. As her flight will get there while I am still flying is ok to ask an airhostess if her flight has arrived safely?

You can ask, not sure if a) the crew will know that info and b) if they will be able to tell you it given the recent terror scares etc.

Neil

As Neil says 'you can ask' but I don't think its operational procedure for an airline to update it's planes in flight about the location / progress etc of its others and even if they did too then pass that information on to passengers.

When your sister arrives in Orlando she will be able to check on your progress.

Get her to text you when she lands! [;)]

quote:Originally posted by aspence7
Get her to text you when she lands! [;)]


Well if Paula's on the VS15 at the same time, she won't receive it!

True, being over the Atlantic I can't imagine there's much of a mobile phone signal.

Surely if we flight takes off before yours, you will know what time it left and it's ETA in MCO, so providing there isn't a reason for a divert you will know roughly when she has landed.

quote:Originally posted by Neil
Surely if we flight takes off before yours, you will know what time it left and it's ETA in MCO, so providing there isn't a reason for a divert you will know roughly when she has landed.


I think the OP's more concerned with knowing whether the flights landed without incident so to speak!

You can ask the crew, and technically the pilot could ask ATC. I had this once when my connecting flight to SFO was very late and the pilot contacted ATC to check the movements of VS019 to see if it was delayed inbound (which would buy me some time connecting) so it is possible, but as Neil points out it might be considered secure information so unless there is a dire need to know I am not sure if they would be willing to go out of their way. No harm in asking I guess. Otherwise its the quick text as soon as wheels are down.

Thanks,
Sarah

With the kind of data I'm now processing for >ahem< a little web project I'm working on, I don't suppose it would be considered pretty secure for long [;)]

If it's important, you could always use the sky phones. $9 per minute - but you'll probably only need a minute, and $9 might be worth your peace of mind.

$9 per minute, that's a bargain! [:I]

quote:Originally posted by Pete
With the kind of data I'm now processing for >ahem< a little web project I'm working on, I don't suppose it would be considered pretty secure for long [;)]

Oooo....you keep dropping little hints....

real-time .... soon ??????

When are you going to let us know the detail?

In response to original question.

Yes the pilot can find out from VS HQ if the flight has landed on time, will they, in short, I very much doubt it, as already posted the best thing to do is to fire off a quick text once you land.

In response to Bill S etc :

Move along, nothing to see here [:w]

quote:Originally posted by Scrooge
In response to original question.

Yes the pilot can find out from VS HQ if the flight has landed on time, will they, in short, I very much doubt it, as already posted the best thing to do is to fire off a quick text once you land.

In response to Bill S etc :

Move along, nothing to see here [:w]

quote:Originally posted by Scrooge
In response to original question.

Yes the pilot can find out from VS HQ if the flight has landed on time, will they, in short, I very much doubt it, as already posted the best thing to do is to fire off a quick text once you land.

In response to Bill S etc :

Move along, nothing to see here [:w]


Obviously once you are safely inside the Terminal building!

quote:Originally posted by Scrooge
In response to Bill S etc :

Move along, nothing to see here [:w]

....yet ?

I have never used it, but I thought you could send / receive text messages on V:Port for a couple of dollars? If you're lucky enough to get V:Port that is.......

Or use the Sky phone to call her when she should have landed, assuming your credit card can take it! Shame they can't take incoming calls. Well, i'm assuming not!

Incidentally, I was on a flight from HKG to LHR with BA a while ago, someone I was travelling with thought he'd turned his Blackberry off, turns out it was only in Standby mode. He landed, too it out his bag to find several texts along the lines of 'Welcome to X country, you're on Y network, and these are the call charges.'

There was some really strange former Soviet countries too, ones you'd assume had no electricity, never mind mobile reception, especially at 38,000ft!

quote:Originally posted by aspence7
Incidentally, I was on a flight from HKG to LHR with BA a while ago, someone I was travelling with thought he'd turned his Blackberry off, turns out it was only in Standby mode. He landed, too it out his bag to find several texts along the lines of 'Welcome to X country, you're on Y network, and these are the call charges.'


LOL, this happened to me once returning from DXB - I do try to turn things off but on this occasion I had forgotten, then, starting in Turkey I had a message from the network provider in virtually every country in Central Europe ... made fun reading on landing!

I'm firmly in the camp that mobiles don't cause problems and its all mongering to help recoup the costs of onboard phones that no one uses anyway. That said, I'd loathe people actually using mobiles onboard.

I watched a documentary once concerning the 9/11 attacks, which basically said that the people on the plane that crashed on route to Washington couldn't have made calls to their families in the air from their mobiles due to their being no mobile phone signal.

I'm not sure if this is an American network problem, or what, but you certainly can get a signal in eastern Europe and Southern Russia!

I once forgot to turn my phone off when flying home from South Africa and landed to find a 'Bienvenue a France' message on my phone. [:D]