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Old Mar 2, 2026 | 2:20 pm
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Originally Posted by rbakker
On a recent UA flight they made a special announcement that making a phone call during the flight is never allowed. CDG-ORD.
First, I am not advocating for people to make any form of real time voice calls because I don't want to listen to them.

However, I do wonder how the rules are officially written in regards to this. Many rules were likely written long ago and may specify a telephone call. One could make the argument that Facetime, Teams, Zoom, etc. are not telephone calls as they do not go through traditional PSTN methods. I wonder if the rules are written in a way to include any form of VoIP call, or just legacy PSTN calls.
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