Singapore Airlines, which announced last October that it was looking into new in-flight connectivity options, is mulling over the idea of in-flight calls.
When you take a look at the landscape today, there will be those who suggest that the idea of just intermingling was the focus far too often and too much in terms of the push for integration, and that we didn't put into the equation the idea of white flight and the inability to force it to happen.
"But don't lose Dad, because I have no idea what our connecting flight is!"
Often clients are convinced a particular aircraft or service is the way to go because a friend tells them so or they take a demo flight and fall in love with the idea.
SMS.ac, a mobile portal, found that 64% of young people favoured in-flight texting, and only 11% liked the idea of making calls.
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Most of the flight attendants "still have some remnant of the old idea of service, " he said.
As a result, many people have no idea whether their loved ones were killed or took flight to other cities.
Scully-Power first thought of the idea last year after meeting his current girlfriend on a flight from Thailand to Sydney.
The site even offers estimated reading times, to give you an idea of how long a story might entertain you during your flight, train ride or afternoon by the pool.
Flight attendants, passengers and the airlines themselves have all spoken out against the idea.
Then, last September, on a flight back from New York, he and Luke Nosek came up with the idea of giving fellowships to brilliant young people who would leave college and launch their own startups.
Gareth Williams was one of them - he got into the idea when he found out how difficult it was to book a flight to visit his brother and go ski-ing in the French Alps.
The idea for Virgin Airways came when he got bumped from an American Airlines flight.
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But after Sept. 11, flight crews realized that talking down hijackers was no longer the right response and revived the idea.
The trip was a bit of a last-minute idea, so I packed rather quickly about an hour before departing for my flight.
In the nine days since the TSA opened a can of worms by announcing it would ease the ban on small knives in airline cabins, the list of groups concerned or opposed to the idea has grown to include airlines, airport screeners, federal air marshals, flight attendants and pilots.
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Dancing is a bad idea even on the ground, said Veda Shook, president of the Association of Flight Attendants.
The idea is to circle the globe in five stages, each taking four or five days of continuous flight (which is about as much as a pilot could endure).
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