If no safety issues exist, would you approve of the use of cell phones on airplanes?
More middle aged people supported the idea than opposed it in a 2007 survey by the U.S. Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
About 40 percent of those age 35 to 64 said cell phone use on airplanes definitely should or probably should be allowed. Just over 35 percent said it definitely shouldn't or probably shouldn't be allowed. About 14 percent weren't sure.
People 65-plus were less inclined to like the cell-phone-on-airplanes idea with 57 percent indicating it definitely or probably shouldn't be allowed.
More younger people, age 18-34, in the survey gave a thumbs up to the idea with 47.7 percent responding it definitely or probably should be allowed.
I find cell phone use in public pretty annoying. I don’t like it restaurants and other public places, and I don’t like it on planes. What’s so difficult about being ‘offline’ for the couple of hours it takes to fly somewhere? Maybe my objection to cell phone use on planes has to do with my strongly anti-capitalist beliefs. ‘Conducting business’? I don’t care. I’m 50, by the way.
Hi Reah,
Thanks for writing with your opinion about cell phone. I agree. I wouldn’t like to be listening to people talking all the time about their personal lives on an airline flight — long or short.
Rita