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[TheEngineer]

Airlines will soon allow cell phone calls while in flight (I was told). Despite being a HEAVY cell phone user, I am not sure that even I like this. I'm all for restaurants that collect your cell phone and call you if you have a call.

In the TIGHT confines of a plane, I currently do two things well...(1) work (its incredible how much can be done out of the office without interruptions) and (2) sleep . that last thing I need is for anyone to be talking the entire four hours of the flight regardless of whether it is business or person. It will be worse on evening transatlantic flights as those arrive in the early am with no oppportunity to recover sleep before you go into a meeting.

I once sat beside a high ranking officer of a large company who discussed for an hour in intricate a problem that the company was having that could impact amongst other things, stock prices, a law suit, etc,.... How a high ranking officer could do that and not know the mistake is absolutely unbelievable.