Skift Business Traveler: So Can We Use Our Phones or Not?
Doug Lansky
Share
What to Know Now
Hey everyone, it's Doug Lansky from Destination Development Watch filling in for Grant Martin. What's DDW? For the business traveler, it covers major development projects that cities and large companies are undertaking to attract visitors and improve the travel experience.
When was the last time you listened to a pre-fight safety briefing? When Virgin Atlantic made it entertaining, as they've just done again. What about the airlines that don't make safety fun? I noticed a lively discussion on a business travel forum about pre-flight safety. To paraphrase the debate, it's certainly valuable information, but is anyone paying attention? Will there come a point when they might just say, "please take a moment to look over the emergency procedures in the safety card" just as they do when they want to inform us about inflight movies?
Subscribe to the newsletter here and send tips to gm@skift.com or @grantkmartin.
Top Story
Want to make a business call in business class? Or a free call in economy? Looks like the Department of Transportation and the Federal Communications Commission are going head to head on this one, according to a recent AP story. The DOT wants to continue the 23-year-old ban on in-flight phone usage. Not because of air navigation safety issues, as we've been led to believe for years. Now that the science is out on that, the reason to continue the ban is because of a new threat: our sanity. Many believe cell pho
Get unlimited access with Skift Pro.
Subscribe now for complete access to Skift.com's trusted coverage of the travel industry.
