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Articles tagged with: Ryanair
New Warnings Issued About Using Mobile Phones on Aircraft
The UK's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has issued a warning to airline passengers that using mobile phones during flight is still forbidden on most aircraft. Although some airlines have introduced 'mobile phone systems' on a number of their aircraft, the use of mobile phones generally remains prohibited on the majority of aircraft. more
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Ryanair Offers In-Flight Phone Calls
European low-cost airline, ryanair has launched an in-flight mobile phone service initially onboard 20 of its, mainly Ireland based aircraft. This is the first step in fitting ryanair's entire fleet of over 170 aircraft to allow all passengers to make and receive mobile calls and texts on all ryanair flights. more
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Seventy-Five Percent of Travellers Say 'No' to Mobile Phones on Planes
Hot on the heels of the airline, Emirates - ryanair has also announced that passengers will be able to make mobile calls during flights within weeks. However, accordingly to a recent poll by Wanderlust Magazine, the vast majority of travellers are strongly opposed to the move. more
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France's President Sarkozy Sues Over Fake SMS
Following the publication of an SMS, allegedly sent by France's President, Nicolas Sarkozy by the Nouvel Observateur newspaper - the President has launched legal action against the publication. The suit was filed yesterday on Sarkozy's behalf by lawyer Thierry Herzog over a report on the newspaper's website entitled "The obsession with Cecilia." It claimed that, eight days before marrying former model Carla Bruni, President Sarkozy sent his former wife an SMS message saying "If you come back, I'll call it all off." more
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Airline Passengers Reject In-Flight Mobile Phones
A few days after low-cost airline, ryanair announced plans to offer mobile phone service on its flights, rival airline Monarch released the results of a survey conducted last year which said that 67% of passengers claimed that using a mobile phone during a flight and having to listen to other people's annoying ringtones would be one of the most annoying inflight experiences for them. more
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More Airlines To Offer In-Flight Mobile Calls
Tacky low-cost European airline carrier, ryanair has announced a deal that will see it's entire fleet of Boeing 737 aircraft fitted with OnAir's onboard mobile communications solution. The announcement will make ryanair the first European airline to offer Europe-wide mobile telephony services during flights across its entire fleet of aircraft to all passengers via their own mobile phones. more
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Ryanair CEO O'Leary Says Mobile Phone Launch Not Imminent
.. companies aren't at an advanced stage. Company Web site: Http://www.ryanair.com -By Nic Fildes, Dow Jones Newswires; 44-20-7842-9264; nicolas.fildes@dowjones.com (END) Dow Jones Newswires" more
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Banned from charging their cellphones at work
The low cost Irish airline, ryanair has imposed a ban on staff charging their mobile phones while at work - claiming that the few seconds spent plugging a phone into a charger is too much of a distraction. A story in the tabloid newspaper, The Mirror cited staff who claimed that their colleagues were furious about the ban. more
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Lessons learned from the airline industry
"Mobile Operators and service providers find themselves in rough turbulence and must prepare themselves for a hard landing". The established European mobile operators and service providers will soon be part of a major aerial dogfight for customers as the discount mobile service providers are ready to take off. They will impact the European Mobile Operators in the same way that the low-cost airlines have crippled the National Airlines. more
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