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Business travellers shun in flight mobile phone use

Wed, 11 Apr 2007

A recent survey has found that the majority of business travellers are not in favour of using mobile phones during flights and would not agree to in-flight mobile technology to be launched.

Barclaycard Business questioned more than 4,000 businessmen and more than half of the business travellers surveyed would not want in-flight mobile technology introduced.

According to the research, 62 per cent of women were against the technology being launched compared to 57 per cent of men. However 43 per cent of chief executives were in favour of in-flight calling compared to 31 per cent of company managers.

Denise Leleux of Barclaycard Business said the results suggest that "business people want to preserve flights as a time to work or relax without fear of being interrupted, overheard, or having to listen to the person next to them."

Michael O'Leary, Chief executive said, "This time last year Ryanair was among the airlines to announce that it was planning to offer an in-flight mobile phone service to its passengers. Speaking about the possible disturbance that it may cause, service could soon be removed if passengers didn't like it."

Bmi, SAS and Air France have also planned to run trials to check the popularity of an in-flight service.
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