Phone calls on the plane? No, thank you!

Flying is an activity that allows us a deep analysis of human behaviour. Since you get up to catch the flight, how people act in the queues or inside the plane, when they get off it or they collect their suitcases. I have many things to say about that, but I will wait for another post.

One of the things I like about flying is that the aircraft is a quiet space. Most of the people are in silence during the trip, trying to sleep, read or preparing their meeting o whatever thing they are going to do when they arrive to the final destination. Some of them talk between them but without disturbing, normally, the rest of the passengers. In this sense, people have a good behaviour. 

However, in the next months, this could change. A few days ago I listen on the radio a piece of news that caught my attention. European Commission (EC) has given permission for use of 3G and 4G mobile phones, tablets and computers above 3,000m (http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/15/europe-in-flight-calling-3g-4g-mobile-broadband) . After having a look on the Internet, I found that U.S. Federal Communications Commission is considering allowing phone calls on flights (http://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/21/travel/fcc-cell-phones-flights/). No, please!

Do you imagine a flight with hundreds of people speaking on there cell phone? It will be terrible! A quiet space like an aircraft will turn in a place worst than a bar! To defend this idea, they say that most of the people use their cell phones to write and send e-mails, chat or send messages; not to phone. Maybe it is true. I can buy this argument. But if you allow people to phone on the plane you will get hundreds of stupid calls? “I am arriving in 5 minutes” o “What are we having for dinner?”, could be some examples. 

Speaking once to a colleague that just to work as an air hostess, she told us that really you could use your phone on the plane without causing any accident, but that they prefer to keep it in secret so people didn’t start phoning. I totally support this idea! I prefer it like this!

At the end we will only have the churches to be in peace and without anybody speaking on the phone near you.