Originally Posted by
exerda
I've got a pair, but they're not allowed to be used on UA or US until 10 minutes after takeoff. Don't know about the other carriers. And they're good, but I still don't want to have to listen to the person beside me carrying on about this or that. Can't it wait until we've landed?
As an on-call person who likes to be able to fly on the weekends, no. Sometimes, it just can't wait.
I really don't have a problem w/ other people on phones, but perhaps a compromise, the back X rows of a plane could be "quite zones" like in the Admirals Club. The chatter on most flights, even between PAX must bother you too, so a quiet zone could be perfect.
(Though it would never happen on flights back and forth to Vegas!)
Originally Posted by
exerda
Didn't the FCC reallocate the band used by the air phones, and they are no longer functional?
The ones on the AA flights are perfectly functional. There isn't one on every seat-back, but they have them avail for general public use in the galleys.
-SF