Airbus To Ruin Passenger Flights With Cell Phone Service
Oh Airbus, can't you stick to building cartoonishly large airplanes? Instead, the plane-makers, with a nod from the European Aviation Safety Agency, are planning to develop the world's first on-board cell-phone network. The network, designed for phones that use the (common in Europe) GSM standard, will supposedly allow cabin crew to block incoming and outgoing calls for announcements from the flight deck and descriptions of in-flight entertainment.
In totally unrelated news, Miss Manners will head a new commission of ninjas to "displace" people who use cell phones on planes inappropriately.
Could be worse, you could get next to someone podcasting mid-flight. Or, horror of horrors, you have the middle seat next to a podcaster and someone with 1000 anytime minutes to blow.
[Photo of Inconsiderate Cell Phone Man: NYTimes.com]
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