[Jet Jaguar]

I did a search and got no results. If this is a duplicate, please pull.

[Keith in Iowa]

From the article: "Can you imagine being in the middle seat between two business people making phone calls for 3 hours?" said Les Glass in an e-mail to CNN/Money. "What are the airlines and the FCC thinking?" That would be just about as bad as sitting next to a screaming baby for the duration of a 3 hour flight. Anyone who needs to be reachable 24/7 ought to stick to ground transportation.

[Drammach]

This is idiocy...

Hasn't anyone noticed that terrorists all over Iraq....

Are using cell phones to activate bombs?

[thackney]

Full article at:
http://cnnmoney.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=FCC+to+consider+in-flight+use+of+cell+phones+-+Dec.+9%2C+2004+&expire=&urlID=12537063&fb=Y&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmoney.cnn.com%2F2004%2F12%2F09%2Ftechnology%2Fpersonaltech%2Fcellphones_inflight%2Findex.htm&partnerID=2200

[I_dmc]

Well, I would think the obvious answer is a cell repeater, internal to the passenger compartment.

[samtheman]

I predict fights will ensue over this. Between loud phone talkers and people who want to sleep.

[Nick Danger]

Geez, next thing you know, they'll permit tampering with the smoke detectors in the lavatories.

[aardvark1]

This would drive me crazy. Already, I don't know weather to laugh or cry about the supposed need people have to talk on their cell phones up to the last instant when the announcement is made that phones must be turned off and later, turn them on the instant they're allowed.

I watch men in dark suits pace the waiting areas in airports with ear pieces in talking with only God knows who. How did we ever live before the cell phone?

I don't think I'm a Luddite when it comes to these, I appreciate the convenience and the importance, but at some point, we have to be able to put them down and talk to another human face to face or be polite enough to realize an entire plane load of people doesn't care about your personal or professional business.

[Hardastarboard]

Great. Now I can curse my cell phone for lost signals while I'm airborne.

[aviator]

The average cell phone will drop all calls soon after airborne anyway.

[wai-ming]

Didn't some of the victims on 9/11 use cell phones to contact people on the ground?

If my plane were being taken over by terrorists, I would want some link to the outside.

[OXENinFLA]

Do this include the Pilot too?


};O)

[Glenn]

Mrs. Olsen and others got in their last goodbyes on cell phones, didn't they? I'd like the option if the time came.

[Pylot]

It is the discretion of the pilot in command to allow or disallow the use of any electronic device on a plane.