I think the electronics limits on flights is crap, but he is right as far as I know, he can be on the phone while the door is open.
He “can” do whatever the flight staff will LET him do.
He can argue the policy but he does not run the flight and neither do any of the other passengers.
I fly frequently for work and I agree, a bunch of crap and yes, the rule is for as long as the door is open. However, as I understand it, the flight attendant can request it before the door is closed so that when it is closed they can push back immediately. With that said, he still is a piece of work by calling here that...typical liberal elitist.
Yes, he is correct but Schumer may have been overly bellicose in the conversation. The attendant may have been fed up with having to listen to his too-loud narcissism.
Rules are rules.
Yet I agree with you. One of the dirtiest electronic/magnetic field environment in the world is an airport. And unless the windows on the plane are coated with a conductive see through film, don’t tell me the plane provides Faraday cage protection. Unless you’ve just fired up a 5000 watt generator inside the cockpit there had better be no interference. There is nothing a battery powered commercially available electronic device will interfere with unless is it breaking FCC requirements six ways to Sunday. If that were the case, planes would be falling out of the sky daily.
The NappyOne
Sir, you are dead wrong!!! Take from this good source, once the flight crew airmen & attendants make the government and airline policy announcements in and throughout the cabin, that is the law. Senator Schumer should have been arrested by airport authorities in either DC or NYC. He violated both federal law and US Airways operation procedures. Calling the flight attendant a nasty name breaks no law. It does show what an egotistical bottom feeder this poor excuse for a human being is. God bless the Democrat Party and POTUS Barack Obama in their determined, evil quest to destroy the United States of America!!! How’s that for Hope & Change?????
>>I think the electronics limits on flights is crap, but he is right as far as I know, he can be on the phone while the door is open.<<
Yep.