I am feeling very sorry for the pax occupying seat 11K on SQ 107 KUL-SIN 24 January. Not only did he board late but was then so busy with vital business decisions that he needed to use both his computer and mobile until the plane was 300m above the ground on take-off when he obviously lost a mobile signal. He was then restricted to only the computer until 300m before landing when he could go back to his mobile until we disembarked. It was all e-mail with only one call, as far as I could hear so did not disrupt other passengers too much.
He must have been a VVIP as not only did he ignore at least 4 PA messages about use of mobiles and electronic equipment both on take-off, ascent, decent and landing, he was generally ignored by the crew. One female attendant tentatively reminded him to put his computer away but all the male attendants completely ignored him, even telling another female attendant that it was okay. They did check but chose to ignore.
So either there is no danger to aircraft safety from the use of mobiles and computers during take-off and landing and the PA announcements can safely be ignored or SQ has one rule for most of us and another rule for a few. How busy can you be that you cannot relax for a 35min flight?
I am a TPP so fly a lot with SQ but this is the most obvious breach of the rules I have seen - both by the pax and also by the crew. Yes, this issue has been covered often before on SQTalk and other forums but with more airlines making internet access available in the air, do the PA announcements need to be changed or do the crew need to continue to properly enforce the regulations?
I bet the pax would not have got away with this behaviour in the US, much of Europe or Australia, so why is it okay in Asia?
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He must have been a VVIP as not only did he ignore at least 4 PA messages about use of mobiles and electronic equipment both on take-off, ascent, decent and landing, he was generally ignored by the crew. One female attendant tentatively reminded him to put his computer away but all the male attendants completely ignored him, even telling another female attendant that it was okay. They did check but chose to ignore.
So either there is no danger to aircraft safety from the use of mobiles and computers during take-off and landing and the PA announcements can safely be ignored or SQ has one rule for most of us and another rule for a few. How busy can you be that you cannot relax for a 35min flight?
I am a TPP so fly a lot with SQ but this is the most obvious breach of the rules I have seen - both by the pax and also by the crew. Yes, this issue has been covered often before on SQTalk and other forums but with more airlines making internet access available in the air, do the PA announcements need to be changed or do the crew need to continue to properly enforce the regulations?
I bet the pax would not have got away with this behaviour in the US, much of Europe or Australia, so why is it okay in Asia?
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