So, Lamar, tell us how you’re a small government, pro business conservative again?
Sen. Alexander, Feinstein send anti-cellphone letter to DOT. Or, you know, let the airlines decide their own policies.
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March 10th, 2014 at 5:04 pm
Airlines DO NOT want phones on planes. I’d say 90% or more of their passengers don’t want phones on planes.
However, the frequent business travelers do want those phones to be useful mid-flight. Frequent business travelers are worth a lot of cash. I used to be one (flying cross country every week, at least – for years).
I have been told that the airlines are quietly asking for the FAA to prevent phones in flight, because the complaints from the 90% over the 10% who use them will create a serious issue.
There are not two sides to these issues. More like four or five. You just see two of them.
I am against phones. They intrude on what little space I have on a plane. Of course, I am also against babies in first/business class; fat people in any single seat (they should pay for two or three); not using headphones to listen to a movie (or having them so loud I can hear it anyway); playing of games on iThings at full sound; watching porn (including super-violent stuff) while everyone can see it; and the use of overhead space to stuff jackets/hats that will be crushed by my bags (but that’s really your problem when it’s all said and done); or using the overhead for shopping bags full of random shit that spews all over the place immediately upon takeoff (no, I will not reach down and get your shit from under my seat).
So I am the elitist flyer. I admit it. I leave you alone and you leave me alone. The world is at peace.I help you put your bags overhead when they are too heavy, and happily move when you need my seat for your kids that United placed ten rows back. But don’t be a jackass and “talk business” on the flight the whole way, or talk to your friends about the AWESOME time you are going to have this weekend.
So I have no issues with the FAA setting limits, but wish they’d also set limits on seating sizes and the like. That’s not gonna happen.
My FAA rules would be designed around the passenger: limit the extent that the other cows in the cattle car can shit on my ride.
Yeah…been that kind of day for me. Sorry for the rant.
March 11th, 2014 at 12:15 am
Lamar needs to go. He’s needed to go for years, but if the last election was any indication, it’s not going to happen unless he gets caught in bed with a dead, underage male hooker.