Originally Posted by xTWAnowAAer
How about if there was designated time periods during the flight that you can use a cell phone? i.e. on the hour for 10 minutes, after 1 hour into the flight for 15 minutes, 1 hour before landing etc. etc. This way I/we will not be on the phone the whole time inflight just a few designated times.
Just my $.02
It's a nice idea, but it will be hard to enforce. FAs coming to tell people that the "designated cell use time is now over, please hang up". Or that it's in the middle of the hour, and hot allowed at all.
The only way that this would work is to turn off the little mini-cells that they will be using during the non-allowed times. Then, there will be people pissed off about their call suddenly terminating.
I like it, but many will probably object (perhaps not too many here, but among the customer base) that, if it can be made available at all, why not keep it on all the time.
Cheers.