A dark day for air travel

[Darren Wheeler]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7899446.stm

yet another reason not to fly Von Ryanair Express. Please let it be a total flop and ther whole industry drops the idea.

[Scrooge]

Very sad indeed, but with the costbeing what it is maybe people will leave their phones off.

[Darren Wheeler]

How long before the first air-rage against a mobile?

Never been on RyanAir ... never will ... even more so now so like, 110% never will!

[Pete]

Ok, so how does one send a clear message to Virgin that I do not ever want to step foot on a plane that allowed some self-important git to shout into his phone for 10 hours over the Atlantic? And I'm not even interested in the idea of a 'phone zone', since a bit like the old days when they had a smoking section, you can be damn sure there will be occasions when the only seat left is in the phone zone, or the last row of the non-phone zone, where it makes no difference that you're in the quiet bit, 'cos the git behind you is shouting into his phone.

same here,I spend over 2 hours every day on a train listening to peoples life stories

I love the way Ryanair are saying it's an important service etc.

Calls 1.50 to 3.00.....nothing to do with squeezing extra cash out of the punters then.

Great!![n]

I can never understand anyone having the need to make a phonecall on a flight.

If a businessperson has the need to make a urgent call on a plane then that's either bad organising or your business is failing, especially it can't wait an hour or two on a short flight.

As for teenagers telling people they are going to be delayed, if it's anything like my parents, they know their little one's going to be delayed long before the teenager, simply by going on the net or they down the airport 1-2 hours before the flight is due to land.

Oh god no. Its bad enough on trains and buses never mind on a plane!.

I get so fed up with the endless witterings of people who think they are so important.

I can imagine the howls when people realise how much it cost them just to phone their mum and say 'on a plane.'

As others have said yet another reason not to fly ryan air.

quote:Originally posted by tontybear
Oh god no. Its bad enough on trains and buses never mind on a plane!.


Agreed, but sometimes can't help but overhear some things that make you smile.

Case 1: A man who used to catch the same flight as I do to EDI on a Monday morning. He used to arrive at the gate at about 6.45 am, and the first thing he'd do would be to ring his boss to say what he'd done on Friday. I think that he wasn't required to do this, as the conversation used to go along the lines of 'and then I told the....oh...you're still in bed?' or even better 'and then I told the....oh...you're on holiday?' - I just hope they were on holiday in timezone east of Stansted

Case 2: A woman at the gate in EDI. 'Well, if I wear the stripy socks and pants what are you going to do for me?'[:I] What was she talking about?

Still against the idea of having the infernal devices on aircraft though.

Paul

quote:Originally posted by Pete
Ok, so how does one send a clear message to Virgin that I do not ever want to step foot on a plane that allowed some self-important git to shout into his phone for 10 hours over the Atlantic?

Perhaps suggest they may have safety problems when pax start using this answer.

quote:Originally posted by Bill S
quote:Originally posted by Pete
Ok, so how does one send a clear message to Virgin that I do not ever want to step foot on a plane that allowed some self-important git to shout into his phone for 10 hours over the Atlantic?

Perhaps suggest they may have safety problems when pax start using this answer.


WTF!!!!!![:0][:0]

quote:Originally posted by DarkAuror
quote:Originally posted by Bill S
quote:Originally posted by Pete
Ok, so how does one send a clear message to Virgin that I do not ever want to step foot on a plane that allowed some self-important git to shout into his phone for 10 hours over the Atlantic?

Perhaps suggest they may have safety problems when pax start using this answer.


WTF!!!!!![:0][:0]


Super illegal to operate them though in almost all jurisictions. In the UK it's one of those silly laws where owning such a device is legal but the act of using it certainly isn't.

H

[Decker]

Yes I attempted to get Home Office approval for use in schools a few years ago but they were having none of it....

I can see it now: ' Hi, I'm on plane........they've just closed the doors......they're now starting the engines.......we're moving........we're taxying......they're giving there safety brief... blah blah blah blah. It's what people do.

Please please let this money making scam go no further than the money grabbing low cost scutter airlines.[:(!]


NOC

Hmm those scanners that DarkAuror linked to look more like tasers with their little prongs at the top.

Now there's an idea but how do you get them through security [:?][:?][:?]

[buns]

Now Ryanair is taking away check in desks

So you'll need the phone to check in[}:)]

buns

[Darren Wheeler]

Why not just pass on the biggest saving and stop actually having aircraft?

I download a podcast from Dublin radio station 98FM, called the Toll Trolls. Little two minute sketches. The latest one was about Ryanair.

'So... you mean I can just call you?'
'Well, not exactly. What happens with Ryanair calls is that you call me, and the call is answered by someone 30 miles away and you then need to get a bus to get to the person to complete your side of the conversation'

What happens here is:

a) use airbridge to board - phone can be used until door closed and on arrival from after the welcome to 'x' if phone is within reach.
b) no airbridge or airbridge and stairs (a la DJ) no phones after leaving the departure lounge until inside arrivals hall.

Rant on - There cannot be any call that is urgent when flying. When on business if one needs to be contactable at all times probably best to stay in the office or delegate and empower! For a family emergency - what can happen turn the aircraft around, go faster!

What happened 20 years ago before we all had mobiles - from my vague recollections [;)] amazingly life continued, business took place, people interacted with one another and a bonus people could actually spell whole words!

The sooner phones are banned from a number of other places too the better. Rant off.

I for one would avoid flying an airline that allowed in flight mobile use.