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It's a given that most people these days will bring their own device on their aircraft, ferry or whatever form of transport they're going to be stuck on for a while. Why provide expensive screens and control systems, when you can just provide wi-fi and let your passengers connect to an in-flight system with games, music, films and episodes. And from there, it's a small step to providing Internet access.
This is exactly the case of the airline that I took. They offered a Wi-Fi access on the plane during the flight. For a fee you would get the connection information and access to the connection for 24 hrs. This was gret because the games and music, movies and app stores were all available to us. We were traveling with 3 small children. It was great having the ability to switch between music and videos as one childs likes varies from the others.
Bring Their Own Device is Safety. We have had numerous examples of unsafe Computer equipment not being allowed on aircraft because of a possible Fire Hazard or RF interference of the systems. The Airlines in Particular introduced Display Equipment that was "Safe" in their Aircraft and where actively discouraging their customers from using their own devices particularly those with the Suspect Sony Batteries.
I can just see it now sure you can use your own device but if it causes any problems you pay for the damage done. In the case of a plane brought down by a major uncontrolled fire that could be a very expensive payout for a passenger when you take into account the cost of Aircraft, Training of the Air Crew and the Resulting Damages that the remainder of those travelling on the plane families would be demanding and finally bad press for the airline in question. The airline could of course claim that they where not responsible so could avoid being sued successfully and pass the problem off to the passenger who is suspected of starting the fire or causing the Avionics to fail causing the crash.
When this happens there will be a new Tax on the Travelling Public Insurance for the damage that their Devices could cause to the Aircraft and other passengers. After all I can not see many of the Travelling Public in a position of being able to cover several hundred million $ in damages because their iPhone caused a crash.
Maybe it's just cheaper to use what the airline provides and not make any complaints.
Col.
I can just see it now sure you can use your own device but if it causes any problems you pay for the damage done. In the case of a plane brought down by a major uncontrolled fire that could be a very expensive payout for a passenger when you take into account the cost of Aircraft, Training of the Air Crew and the Resulting Damages that the remainder of those travelling on the plane families would be demanding and finally bad press for the airline in question. The airline could of course claim that they where not responsible so could avoid being sued successfully and pass the problem off to the passenger who is suspected of starting the fire or causing the Avionics to fail causing the crash.
When this happens there will be a new Tax on the Travelling Public Insurance for the damage that their Devices could cause to the Aircraft and other passengers. After all I can not see many of the Travelling Public in a position of being able to cover several hundred million $ in damages because their iPhone caused a crash.
Maybe it's just cheaper to use what the airline provides and not make any complaints.
Col.
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