{"id":44134,"date":"2014-08-04T10:15:21","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T16:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/04\/cell-phone-calls-on-airplane-flights.html"},"modified":"2014-08-06T18:33:24","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T00:33:24","slug":"cell-phone-calls-on-airplane-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/04\/cell-phone-calls-on-airplane-flights.html","title":{"rendered":"Cell phone calls on airplane flights"},"content":{"rendered":"
So, no, I really am not wowed about the guy sitting next to me nattering into his phone all flight. But, hey, I'm not sure that's worse than his nattering to his travel partner all flight, or using the phones that used to grace the backs of seats before in-flight TV became cheap, or listening to a movie with the sound-track audible through the headphones. I'm not wowed about the kid behind me kicking the seat, or the kid behind me rocking his seat back and forth. I'm not wowed by the baby screaming two aisles back, or the gal next to me who brought her Subway sandwich and proceeds to eat it, noisly and odorously after we take off.<\/p>\n

A lot of things don't wow me. But with all the discomforts and annoyances of modern air travel, idjits on cell phones do not strike me as the single one that requires a regulatory ban.\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n

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US to propose ban on in-flight cell phone calls<\/a>
\n Interference rules are outdated, but in-flight calls may not be desirable.\n <\/p>\n

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So, no, I really am not wowed about the guy sitting next to me nattering into his phone all flight. But, hey, I'm not sure that's worse than his nattering to his travel partner all flight, or using the phones that used to grace the backs of seats before in-flight TV became cheap, or listening … Continue reading “Cell phone calls on airplane flights”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31641,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/07\/fly-the-mobile-deviced-skies.html","url_meta":{"origin":44134,"position":0},"title":"Fly the Mobile Deviced Skies","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 7-Dec-12 7:18am","format":false,"excerpt":"I have no desire to deal with people nattering on their cell phones in the context of an air flight. 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