Apr 17
Just saw this for the first time on a flight from Chicago to Minneapolis.
My Brazilian Embaer 175 had a “Turn Off Electronic Devices” light instead of no smoking, which is brilliant. In looking into the details a little further, it appears that they could only safely make this change as late as 1989 for flights under 2 hours, 1990 for under 6 hours and 2000 for all flights (in the US). I had no idea you could have flown a plane as late as 1989 with someone right next to you smoking away. Next it’s going to be the rise and fall of cell phones on planes…
April 25th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
You understand that this is just a precursor to the airlines providing online access for a fee…
June 25th, 2010 at 9:04 am
Y’know, I’ve thought that too. “Why do we have a No Smoking sign?” Wow. They could’ve swapped them out >10 years ago? Epic fail.
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