Fly Guy wrote:

The real reason is to ban any form of real-time communication that
passengers have with the outside world while in flight. It's a "human
factors" reason. I guess the argument goes that if passengers learn
while in flight that, say, World-War-3 has started, or if there is a
coordinated hijacking combined with suicidal crashing into buildings,
that it may unnerve the passengers enough to cause caos on board that
the FA's couldn't handle. They'd rather have a cabin full of sheep
insulated from the happenings of the outside world for the duration of
the flight.

This is pure nonsens. More and more airlines allow direct internet
access, on this way it is even possible to place VoIP-phonecalls.



regards - Ralph

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