01 April 2008
Ofcom's recent approval of mobile phones used in airplanes in Europe has raised debate among airlines and passengers.
While some airlines like Ryanair have welcomed the move, hoping to sell the service as soon as possible, others such as Easyjet would rather preserve their passengers' tranquillity.
"The benefit is that it would be a service we could sell. But the downside is whether customers really want to be on a flight with lots of people on mobile phones," an Easyjet spokeswoman told the Independent.
Easyjet expressed its wish to take the customers' opinions into account before allowing the use of mobile phones onboard aircrafts and told the Telegraph: "We can look at a number of initiatives at any time, but this is not one of them at the moment."
Easyjet operates budget flights across Europe, including direct flights from London to Bastia and Ajaccio in Corsica to begin in May this year.
According to a survey carried on by the International Air Passengers Association two years ago, listening to someone's telephone calls would be the second most irritating thing they could imagine on an aircraft for almost half of respondents.
