Air phone's have been available on flights forever. Last time I flew to China on JAL they had a phone for every single seat attached to the media system.
BUT NOBODY USES THEM BECAUSE THEY ARE TOO EXPENSIVE.
When you swipe that credit card and know you are going to pay $2 a minutes + LONG DISTANCE+ TOLLS and FEES you are not going to sit and yap about bullshit all flight long.
All the airlines have to do is force fliers to pay extravagantly to use the system and you will get two possibilities:
#1 People will use it for EMERGENCY ONLY or #2 Only the rich (or business users) will use it regularly (and most likely they are in 1st Class anyway).
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Big @ Jun 19th 2007 5:30PM
ITs very simple to solve this issue.
JUST MAKE IT VERY, VERY EXPENSIVE.
Air phone's have been available on flights forever.
Last time I flew to China on JAL they had a phone for every single seat attached to the media system.
BUT NOBODY USES THEM BECAUSE THEY ARE TOO EXPENSIVE.
When you swipe that credit card and know you are going to pay $2 a minutes + LONG DISTANCE+ TOLLS and FEES you are not going to sit and yap about bullshit all flight long.
All the airlines have to do is force fliers to pay extravagantly to use the system and you will get two possibilities:
#1 People will use it for EMERGENCY ONLY or
#2 Only the rich (or business users) will use it regularly (and most likely they are in 1st Class anyway).