Winging It

I'm glad you asked--thank you. As one who alwqays seeks out the quiet car on Amtrak, the thought of unrestrained cell phone use on board an airplane is sobering. I would object in every way I can imagine to any serious proposal that would change current policy. The allowance for calls on the tarmac and after landing makes good sense.

I would think the addition of cell phones in flight would take stress to the next level.

I've been on a couple of flights, that due to a tarmac or ground delay, the captain permitted the use of cell phones. While most only made a fast call to the person wating for them at the other end of the flight to tell them of the delay, a couple would drone on and on. One woman behind me on her way to a wedding, went into a 30-minute discussion of the family feud that was about to breakout at the wedding.

If becomes a permitted activity, we will all be subject to the personal, and business calls, that we really don't want to hear.

Surveys show that an overwhelming number of travelers do not want cell phone use permitted while in flight. My question is, "Who is pushing this agenda forward knowing there is a vast majority against it?

Jim Mc

Re your recent column about use of cells on planes, I would say 1,000
times NO! Who needs to use a phone on a plane? No one is that important. The
inane conversations we are all forced to listen to already are bad enough. But to be in a cramped space with some yahoo announcing into his phone, "they put me in F.....g coach," as my daughter-in-law's seat partner did last Friday, is something we could all hope to avoid. So, I vote no.
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