In-flight phone calls: Good or bad?

by Rachel Sang-hee Han

If you forgot to call your mom to water your plants next time you take a trip, not to worry. You can now do that on the plane.

At least that will be the case for travelers flying Virgin Atlantic between London and New York.

The airline has launched a mobile phone service on its new Airbus A330 and refurbished Boeing 747 aircraft flying that route for Vodafone and O2 network customers.

While other airlines have done this in the past, some successfully (Air France, Emirates), others abandoning the idea after passenger complaints (Qantas, Lufthansa), Virgin is the first British airline to do so.

While flying outside U.S airspace (the Federal Communications Commission bans the use of mobile phone on planes), passengers can make and receive phone calls, send and receive text messages, access emails and use basic Internet services via GPRS.

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Source: http://rss.cnngo.com/~r/cnngo/~3/tRGUTzIcjME/virgin-atlantic-allows-mobile-service-board-276063

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