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Internet yes, mobile telephones..no!!!! no!!! no!!!

Sitting on a plane is one of the only places I have away from the vacuous conversations of others. Can you imagine the person next to you "yes...what...I can't hear you...I'm on a plane...yes a plane....did she?.....Oh I thought so....I said that didn't I....

Keep them off the planes!! The phones as well! :-)]]>Aug 30th 2006 5:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/30/ryanair-qantas-finally-adding-in-flight-calling/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/30/ryanair-qantas-finally-adding-in-flight-calling/
We can all pray that the call charges will be oppressively high and discourage all but the neediest chatterboxes.]]>Aug 30th 2006 5:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/30/ryanair-qantas-finally-adding-in-flight-calling/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/30/ryanair-qantas-finally-adding-in-flight-calling/Aug 30th 2006 5:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/30/ryanair-qantas-finally-adding-in-flight-calling/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/30/ryanair-qantas-finally-adding-in-flight-calling/Aug 30th 2006 5:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/30/ryanair-qantas-finally-adding-in-flight-calling/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/30/ryanair-qantas-finally-adding-in-flight-calling/]]>Aug 30th 2006 5:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/30/ryanair-qantas-finally-adding-in-flight-calling/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/30/ryanair-qantas-finally-adding-in-flight-calling/
I for one welcome our mobile phone-using fellow passengers]]>Aug 30th 2006 6:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/30/ryanair-qantas-finally-adding-in-flight-calling/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/30/ryanair-qantas-finally-adding-in-flight-calling/Aug 30th 2006 6:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/30/ryanair-qantas-finally-adding-in-flight-calling/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/30/ryanair-qantas-finally-adding-in-flight-calling/Aug 30th 2006 6:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/30/ryanair-qantas-finally-adding-in-flight-calling/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/30/ryanair-qantas-finally-adding-in-flight-calling/
So what's more dangerous on a plane? a cell phone jammer or a cell phone?

Really, this is just what I want, doing time sitting next to another pompous j*rk yaking away on their cell phone...]]>Aug 30th 2006 7:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/30/ryanair-qantas-finally-adding-in-flight-calling/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/30/ryanair-qantas-finally-adding-in-flight-calling/Sep 3rd 2006 7:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/30/ryanair-qantas-finally-adding-in-flight-calling/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/30/ryanair-qantas-finally-adding-in-flight-calling/"Passengers wanting to make or receive a call will need a global roaming account, meaning they'll have to pay international call charges. The aircraft effectively operates as a single country in the sky ... "

Global roaming is hugely expensive (for Australians anyway), that will hopefully deter people, unless work's picking up the tab of course...]]>Aug 30th 2006 7:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/30/ryanair-qantas-finally-adding-in-flight-calling/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/30/ryanair-qantas-finally-adding-in-flight-calling/Aug 30th 2006 8:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/30/ryanair-qantas-finally-adding-in-flight-calling/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/30/ryanair-qantas-finally-adding-in-flight-calling/Aug 30th 2006 8:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/30/ryanair-qantas-finally-adding-in-flight-calling/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/30/ryanair-qantas-finally-adding-in-flight-calling/
I could put up with the dirty seats, tired hostessess, baggage charge, remote airports and hidden costs making it more expensive than BA, but their treatment of disabled people is truly diabolical.

Seriously, there is a wheelchair charge ('Wchr levy') itemised on your bill, just to make it clear that it's those selfish cripples pushing up the price of YOUR ticket.

Before flying Ryanair, you have to ask yourself: Are you that desperate?]]>Aug 31st 2006 4:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/30/ryanair-qantas-finally-adding-in-flight-calling/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/30/ryanair-qantas-finally-adding-in-flight-calling/Talk about your air rage.]]>Aug 31st 2006 5:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/30/ryanair-qantas-finally-adding-in-flight-calling/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/30/ryanair-qantas-finally-adding-in-flight-calling/Aug 31st 2006 8:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/30/ryanair-qantas-finally-adding-in-flight-calling/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/30/ryanair-qantas-finally-adding-in-flight-calling/Aug 31st 2006 12:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/30/ryanair-qantas-finally-adding-in-flight-calling/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/30/ryanair-qantas-finally-adding-in-flight-calling/
That's encouraging news, indeed. The first thing I do on entering an aircraft is switch off my cell phone and I feel so, so, deprived, yes, deprived. When will the world learn that cell phones do not, and, come to think of it, cannot interfere with the aircraft's radio signals as they are in different frequencies after all. Really stupid of airline companies not to realize this simple truth.

:)

John]]>Sep 1st 2006 2:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/30/ryanair-qantas-finally-adding-in-flight-calling/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/30/ryanair-qantas-finally-adding-in-flight-calling/
...And I'm having a hard time remembering when the last time was that I didn't have to strain to hear the flight attendant ask me if I wanted chicken or pasta. Airplanes are loud beasts, with so much white noise I can barely maintain a medium-volumed conversation with my neighbor. Yeah, there'll be shouters, but this isn't as bad as y'all are making it out to be.]]>Nov 8th 2006 5:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/30/ryanair-qantas-finally-adding-in-flight-calling/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/30/ryanair-qantas-finally-adding-in-flight-calling/Apr 2nd 2007 10:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/30/ryanair-qantas-finally-adding-in-flight-calling/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/30/ryanair-qantas-finally-adding-in-flight-calling/Apr 2nd 2007 11:06AM