When will US Airways get approval for new electronics rule? (updated: 11/7/13 start)
Dec 9, 2013, 8:12 pm
#106
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When will US Airways get approval for new electronics rule? (updated: 11/7/13 start)
Still no on Republic.
Dec 11, 2013, 12:02 pm
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I've had five flights on Republic in the last 6 weeks, all from DCA, and had a complete mixed bag in terms of this. On an MHT flight they said nothing - no announcement either way - and so people used them without any word from the FAs. On my first CHS tripight we had to turn them off on the way down, on the way back the FA got up and shut off the safety announcement right about the time it was saying to turn them off - was sitting in 2A and it looked like he either shut it off or held a button to mute it? Then on a CHS flight a week later they had an announcement about knowing the FAA has made a change but it not having been approved yet.
Dec 12, 2013, 6:16 pm
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I've had five flights on Republic in the last 6 weeks, all from DCA, and had a complete mixed bag in terms of this. On an MHT flight they said nothing - no announcement either way - and so people used them without any word from the FAs. On my first CHS tripight we had to turn them off on the way down, on the way back the FA got up and shut off the safety announcement right about the time it was saying to turn them off - was sitting in 2A and it looked like he either shut it off or held a button to mute it? Then on a CHS flight a week later they had an announcement about knowing the FAA has made a change but it not having been approved yet.
Dec 12, 2013, 6:59 pm
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The last list of approved carriers I've seen is 3 weeks old but at that time (11/22/13) only Air Wisconsin and Skywest (only on CRJs) were approved. But that was within about 2-3 weeks of the rule change becoming effective, so hopefully more of the regional carriers will have approval by the end of the year.
Jim
Jim
Dec 12, 2013, 7:24 pm
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Was just going to update this, DCA to MHT today, approved for use at all times. In fact, they went through the trouble of announcing the new policy four times. FA in first had a printout that he read each time, said they hadn't had time to update the recorded announcements yet.
Dec 17, 2013, 4:10 pm
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When will US Airways get approval for new electronics rule? (updated: 11/7/13 start)
Republic is now approved for gate to gate electronics. I asked my FA today IND-PHL after she read through a very thorough/long script on the new policy, and she said the new materials had just been distributed in the past few days with an effective date of 12/11.
Dec 17, 2013, 4:27 pm
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It'd be interesting to know if part of the delay was due to getting each of their mainline partners to sign off on the verbiage. I haven't been on a US flight since the PED policy changed but from posts here it seems that the announcement isn't that long or involved.
Jim
Jim
Dec 17, 2013, 9:07 pm
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It'd be interesting to know if part of the delay was due to getting each of their mainline partners to sign off on the verbiage. I haven't been on a US flight since the PED policy changed but from posts here it seems that the announcement isn't that long or involved.
Jim
Jim
IMHO, the way the official version was written was so convoluted and overly wordy that it was a little tough to follow... and that was before I had started my PDB. I wonder if they had to include phrases in that one script to appease all the different airlines they operate as, or if Republic is allowed to have a unique policy/script for each brand.
Dec 17, 2013, 9:44 pm
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A slightly different slant - the info given to US mainline FAs (not the PA script) is a lot more complex than a simple "use PEDs from gate to gate."
Jim
Dec 20, 2013, 2:08 pm
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When will US Airways get approval for new electronics rule? (updated: 11/7/13 start)
Piedmont received approval on 12/19! Finally.