Timeline for Is it okay to ask the Call Sign of the plane to Pilots / Flight crew during boarding?
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| Oct 6, 2017 at 4:35 | comment | added | Pete855217 | Airlines running codeshare flights still have to nominate a single operating flight number. This is the operating airline or more formally, the airline who's AOC the flight is operating under. The codeshare numbers are invisible and irrelevant to ATC, and are filtered from the FIDS that the tower etc. use with a flag. | |
| Oct 5, 2017 at 11:03 | comment | added | LangeHaare | "most planes have Wifi" incidentally I have never been on a plane that had wifi (despite flying internationally within Europe several times per year) @Ank | |
| Dec 4, 2016 at 21:34 | comment | added | Joshua | @ToddWilcox: Ah yes you finally noticed the FAA figured out the prohibition was always natter. | |
| Oct 9, 2015 at 12:24 | comment | added | Todd Wilcox | Ahhh, apparently this changed since the last time I flew. Passengers may use approved electronic devices at all times during a flight: washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/… | |
| Oct 9, 2015 at 12:19 | comment | added | Todd Wilcox | On domestic US flights, the wording I have always heard is "...turn off and stow all electronic devices..." Usually that is required whenever the "Fasten Seatbelt" sign is on. In terms of removal from the flight, it might be discretionary. Either way, we are also reminded on domestic US flights, “Federal law requires passenger compliance with lighted signs, placards and crew member instructions.” So you can be charged on arrival even if they don't eject you from the plane. | |
| Oct 9, 2015 at 11:36 | comment | added | Firee | @Airsick: Surely they are not going to remove you from the flight for keeping the phone on, imagine what a waste of time it would be from the airline. | |
| Oct 9, 2015 at 11:35 | comment | added | Philip Johnson | I would be very surprised if turning wifi back on doesn't disable airplane mode. Either way the spirit of the request from the airline is not to have devices that transmit or receive particularly during the time that the aircraft is close to the ground, although some airlines ask for no transmit or receive for the entire flight. | |
| Oct 9, 2015 at 8:52 | comment | added | GdD | That depends on the type of phone and OS @Ank. | |
| Oct 9, 2015 at 6:47 | vote | accept | Ank | ||
| Oct 9, 2015 at 6:44 | comment | added | Ank | turning on airplane mode disconnects wifi but you can turn on wifi again without turning off the airplane mode.. | |
| Oct 9, 2015 at 6:12 | comment | added | DJClayworth | Wifi doesn't work in my airplane mode. | |
| Oct 9, 2015 at 5:36 | vote | accept | Ank | ||
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| Oct 9, 2015 at 4:29 | comment | added | Ank | "All that said, if you're using your phone when you have been explicitly asked to turn it off the airline is within its rights to confiscate your phone or remove you from the flight." True but its allowed by TSA to have your phone on, on the airplane mode while taking off. And most planes have Wifi and Wifi works on the airplane mode. | |
| Oct 9, 2015 at 3:54 | history | answered | user11516 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |