Cell phone use on a plane?

completely agree. I take the train into NYC all the time. I usually have a fabulous busy day of shows and running around...exhausting! On the 3 hour train ride home I just want to sit back, relax and look out the window, as does most everyone else it seems. This one time, a woman sat behind me and talked loudly on the phone the entire three hours. It was mind-numbingly annoying. If the rest of the train hadn't been packed I would have moved.

The thing that really amazed me was that, in all the silence around her on the train, she was completely unaware that she was the only person making a sound.

No, I do not don't want this on planes.

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Updated On: 11/22/13 at 07:26 AM

I would hate to be sitting next to a chatterbox on a long bus, train or plane ride. I normally have to deal with this on my commute to work every day. There is always someone having a long, drawn out conversation. By the time I reach my destination I know this person's business better than my own. No one exercises discretion anymore.

Please NO

I don't want to sit next to a loud mouth person which is even worse when I can only hear half the conversation. Now step that up when it is in a language I cannot understand and it is even more annoying.

Bring a book, read a magazine, sleep, play games on your phone but please no cell phones on planes!

I read somewhere that Amazon was behind this. They thought people should be able to use a Kindle on planes. So they backed some research which revealed that not only kindles, but cellphones where not an interference on planes.

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NOOOOOOO!

Quiet cars on Amtrak and NJ Transit are a godsend. Amtrak does a great job of it, but NJ Transit is hit or miss, and they only are on rush hour trains. I have a two hour commute each way, which is alot of time to deal with someone yelling at their boyfriend. If I'm feeling snarky, I like to give advice like "he just doesnt seem that into you".

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I wonder if there is some way to petition the FCC?

Even the Flight Attendants union is against this!

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That's exactly what they said.

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This is happening because the 450 pound woman next to you and the people whose children kick the back of your seat for 12 hours are not aggravating enough.

The only consolation is if this does come to pass you know it won't be free or even cheap. The plane will have to have some sort of relay device on it, you wouldn't be able to get a hit from an actual cell tower at 30,000 feet and 400 miles an hour. Somebody said some European airlines already have it and it costs in the range of $3.00 per minute and about $1 per text. So hopefully it will be too prohibitively expensive for most people to actually make use of.

I read that the Chairman doesn't support the use of cell phones, so we'll see how far it actually goes.

If someone is going to make a dime from it, it will pass.

And I will want to punch someone in the throat.


Dear Santa,

I promise that if you give Addy her wish, I won't punch anyone in the throat.

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Well, I think the whole point of allowing cell phone use is that it isn't the danger that it used to seem, and as I remember all devices will still have to be turned off during take-off and landing. If cellphones were really a credible threat in airplanes I doubt they'd be allowed on at all. I mean, we're still all taking off our shoes for scanning because of one wackjob once.

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