Two senators strongly urged the U.S. Transportation Department...
Two senators strongly urged the U.S. Transportation Department to ban in-flight cellphone conversation on commercial flights, in a letter Thursday to Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx. “Adding the burden of listening to a cacophony of personal conversations while confined to a…
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17-inch seat strikes us as unnecessary,” said Sens. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., lamenting the “hostile atmosphere” they believe would result (http://1.usa.gov/P9HNiS). “A clear prohibition of phone calls by the [Federal Aviation Administration] will reduce the likelihood that crew will be forced to place themselves in harm’s way to disrupt physical or verbal altercations between passengers.” They introduced legislation together late last year to forbid such in-flight cellphone conversation. “I'm glad the Department of Transportation is thinking about putting the brakes on a bad idea before it takes flight,” Alexander said in a statement. “With two million passengers hurtling through the air each day, the Transportation Security Administration would have to hire three times as many air marshals to deal with fistfights."