Ryanair to allow mobile phone use on aircraft
Ryanair to allow mobile phone use on aircraft
Budget airline and owner of garish website, Ryanair will begin trialling in-flight mobile phone use by the middle of August, following Ofcom’s decision in April to allow mobiles on aircraft.
The cheap flight provider is the first airline to roll out the plan, which is also being evaluated by BMI and Emirates, among others. The trial will initially be on a limited basis only, allowing users to make calls on certain specified flights. Ryanair will apparently not be imposing massive roaming charges for speaking to your mum at 30,000 feet as many pundits had predicted, but users will simply be subject to the same standard roaming charges as if they were calling from Earth. Presumably the airline is hoping that increased custom from all of those skywarriors who just can’t wait until touch down to make their calls will pay for the cost of the onboard equipment necessary to allow sky calls.
A survey carried out recently by Tripadvisor found that 86% of people were not in favour of allowing the use of mobiles on aircraft. In the US, aviation authorities have so far blocked any plans to introduce in-flight calls. Provided Ryanair’s trial is successful, and they don’t receive too many complaints about irritating passengers talking loudly while flying over the Atlantic, the initiative will doubtless be rolled out to the rest of its fleet in the following months.
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