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Mar 29, 05, 2:58 pm
http://www.indystar.com/articles/3/232202-1663-223.html
But this is more than a technology issue. It's a social and political battle. And at the frontlines are the nation's flight attendants.
"Yes, the last bastion of peace is being threatened," said Jeanne Elliott, regulatory affairs coordinator for the Professional Flight Attendants Association at Northwest Airlines.
The group is urging its 11,000 members to write the Federal Communications Commission to oppose an end to the federal agency's in-flight cell phone ban, or at least urge a most cautious relaxation of it.
The FCC is taking public comment on the matter until Thursday.
But this is more than a technology issue. It's a social and political battle. And at the frontlines are the nation's flight attendants.
"Yes, the last bastion of peace is being threatened," said Jeanne Elliott, regulatory affairs coordinator for the Professional Flight Attendants Association at Northwest Airlines.
The group is urging its 11,000 members to write the Federal Communications Commission to oppose an end to the federal agency's in-flight cell phone ban, or at least urge a most cautious relaxation of it.
The FCC is taking public comment on the matter until Thursday.