News - BA allows use of mobile devices during take-off and landing

[kingpotnoodle]

Yeah I could understand slightly removing headphones but reading a Kindle etc isn't really going to distract you. Even so with headphones in I think people would notice the gas masks drop, the jolting plane and the panic around them...

By the distraction/delay logic staff should also have to make sure nobody was asleep and all deaf/blind/old/fat people were well out of the way so they didn't cause an obstruction.

[Funkstar]

TBH it's been about a year since I was asked to turn off my kindle. Hell and that was only because I had a stewardess in a jump seat opposite me. Also I think she might more have been wanting to have a chat with me, than scold me for kindle usage.

I was asked to turn it off last Sunday on an Eastern Airways flight down to Cardiff. Although on the way back up on Friday I wasn't asked at all.

[iamlorro]

It's always struck me as a totally dumb request anyway, I put my phone into flight-safe mode so I don't waste battery connecting to nothing but nobody checks I actually did or turned it properly off, so long as they screen is off and/or out of sight that's enough. There is no way to police it, any device left in a bag could be on and transmitting - I suppose the airlines have finally admitted the futility of the policy and just decided to save their staff a frustrating exercise.

And telling people off doesn't always work - I was on a flight into heathrow, and the stewardesses tried to get several blokes to turn their phones off during final descent. It didnt work - language barrier & the fact that they were slightly inebriated!

Dont know if this was the case for other people, but I found there was also no consistency by staff. On another flight into heathrow, I was told I couldnt use my camera whilst we were over London ... on the flight out (whilst taxi-ing) the steward had seen me, but said nothing.

[Jack Foz]

I never thought that phones had much effect on airplanes anyway.. I have always recorded with a GoPro out of a window for the entire flight and just make sure the crew doesn't see it. like most people have said I really really really hope they don't ever allow phone calls, a young child or someone who talks too loud is bad enough.

[AlexKitch]

Because switching off a phone for 15 minutes is so much of a hassle.

Sarcasm aside, I'm actually glad that airlines are relaxing about devices, at last.

[j.o.s.h.1408]

Yeah I could understand slightly removing headphones but reading a Kindle etc isn't really going to distract you. Even so with headphones in I think people would notice the gas masks drop, the jolting plane and the panic around them...

By the distraction/delay logic staff should also have to make sure nobody was asleep and all deaf/blind/old/fat people were well out of the way so they didn't cause an obstruction.

one time i put my headphones and fell asleep. woke up and we was halfway to our destination hehe