Originally Posted by
YuropFlyer
The only thing I really HATE about Chinese airlines (all of them) is their silly "no phone during ALL TIME in flight.. " so forget about listening to a podcast on your mobile phone.. surprisingly enough, a full sized tablet is fine for them.. total silly and makes absolutely no sense, but "it's a rule".
It is a standard policy across all chinese airlines, the reason being there are many cheap phones sold in China has fake "flight mode". The phone actually doesn't have a proper flight mode and will interfere communication. It is not safe to allow pax to use those phones in flight so they just ban them all.