I would say the opposite is true. On longhaul flights people pretty much write off the day for travelling, on shorthaul the flight is a bit of an inconvenience sometime in their working day. With the mobile they can carry on working.
Mobiles onboard is something I never want to see, but I’m sure it’s only a matter of time.
I can see it now, people getting arsey when you interupt them to ask what they want to drink, people in row 22 complaining about the prat in row 3 talking too loudly, the deafening roar of 50 Club pax trying to out-business-talk each other, and the whole traveller cabin calling their friends to say “guess where I am!”.
Oh dear!
1L.
I agree about it not being the case on long haul but only for East bound as people usually sleep. On West bound biz pax will usually be working on laptops etc. Currently you can use skype through Lufthansa Broadband onboard so you could technically call someone if you “topped up” your skype.
It depends what type of business too. One involved in an element of “real time processing” or “live” systems or whatever may need to contact someone urgently. A company who are not involved in time or operational critical things would probably be able to do without.
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