On 10/16/07, Igor Roshchin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > David, > > While you are right about the interference reason, the second > statement, I believe, is not accurate.
Always a possibility :-) > I am not sure how long ago you have flown, but the trend I see is that > those phone are removed from the modern aircrafts. > As a matter of fact, none of the aircrafts I've flown this year > (over 40 flights on American, Continental, Delta, Finnair, Frontier, > Southwest, S7, Estonian Air) had built-in phones. May/June this year was the last time. Long haul Perth to Vancouver via Singapore (on Singapore Airlines). I didn't notice them on any of my internal north American flights, but all the wide bodies I've been on this last year had them (Singapore Airlines & Cathay Pacific). Cheers, Dave > Sun Oct 14 11:31:48 EDT 2007 > David Savage wrote: > > > What? Terrorists? > > > > Airliners are concerned about the possibility of radio/navigation > > equipment interference, hence the shielding reference. > > > > That's why every seat on most modern aircraft have built in payphones. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
