Comments on: Cell Phones on Airliners … One Man’s Plan to Fight Back

By: One Airline’s Version of Social Media: Stop … I Want to Get Off | RENT-A-PLANE

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:09:05 +0000

[...] infringe on my personal space on an airplane – all 10 sq. ft. of it – another reason I’m so relentlessly opposed to any airline approving the use of cell phones on board an airplane. Maybe it’s the close quarters or simply the opportunity to sit back for an hour or two and [...]

By: One Airline’s Version of Social Media: Stop … I Want to get Off - Jetwhine: Aviation Buzz and Bold Opinion

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:05:55 +0000

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 03:43:50 +0000

Clever but sick. I love it.

Airlines should be like restaurants. The better ones do not allow use of cellphones.

Eric

By: Robert Mark

Robert Mark — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 15:58:33 +0000

Bob:

I am impressed with the level of creativity I’m seeing from Jetwhine readers. Your’s seems to reflect a superior level of devilishness.

Dog barking is good, but the thought of how people might react if they believe they are being recorded simply boggles the mind.

But what do we do if these blabby people think we’re from some celebrity channel?

Won’t we make it worse? Then what do we do?

C’mon Jetwhiners. We can figure out this next step to add to Bob’s plan, can’t we?

By: Bob Bleczinski

Bob Bleczinski — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 07:42:48 +0000

The intrusion on a plane will be intolerable. Two things I have thought of as an alternative to having a diva-moment are (1) I have a dog-barking sound on my PDA which I can pull up and trigger at max volume in concert with the cell-phone shouter, (repeatedly) or (2) simply hit the record button on my PDA, making it obvious if possible to the shouter, that they are being recorded. I expect in both cases I’ll get the shouter’s attention.

By: Matthew Justice

Matthew Justice — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:40:51 +0000

I like this idea, but I would never be brave enough to carry thru with it.

I think that voice call should be blocked and users should be able to (maybe) send text messages.

By: Mal Gormley

Mal Gormley — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:19:48 +0000

Cell phones have two functions: To call 911 in an emergency–or to call the pizza place on the way home from the beach (we do this a lot here in Maine).

My wife runs the town’s public library. Apparently the classic Library “Shhhhh” doesn’t seem to apply to library visitors. I wonder why? They have to be physically assaulted to turn the damn things off.

Cell phones have single-handedly (pardon the pun) destroyed any last vestige of civility in modern society. Now they want ‘em on airplanes???? The TSA should confiscate ‘em at the gate for safety’s sake.

Thanks for revealing your (patent pending) iPod Payback, Rob. Sounds like a winner. Can we order them in the In-Flight Shopper catalog in the seatback?