Kyle
Earlier this year frequent flyers started an insane amount of buzz around the laws that prohibit you from using your electronic devices during taxi, take off, and dissent. The reason behind this was the fact that many airlines are switching to iPad based flight manuals. Logic would have you ask, if the pilots’ iPad’s aren’t interfering with the flight, why would mine.
Of course, any person with a little common sense realizes that if one cell phone could actually interfere with the flight controls, there would be a more finite ban of those devices on commercial airlines.
Now it’s been reported that Virgin Atlantic will start offering in-flight, use your own cell phone, calls on flights using their Airbus A330 planes, from London to New York. The airline plans on adding more flights as well. They plan on adding 17 planes and ten different routes, this year.
The in flight mobile calling will be provided by AeroMobile which is partly owned by Panasonic. According to digitaljournal, the inflight calls will cost around the same price as a traditional roaming call. I know who actually has roaming charges these days?
source: DigitalJournal
