sbiddle: WiFi will also be prohibited under 10000ft, which is unchanged from present policy.

old3eyes:

sbiddle: WiFi will also be prohibited under 10000ft, which is unchanged from present policy.

If you can use WiFi at 30K feet then you could use a VoIP client like sky I should imagine..

Geektastic: No matter - voice calls are still not allowed! I agree that they never should - and of course on long haul they would often be impossible. I suppose there are always those Skyphone things although I have never seen anyone use one yet.

You will be able to read your Kindle and listen to your iPod etc though and for me, being told to stop reading has always been the bit I find most annoying.

Dratsab: You also have to remember that this is in the US. I can see Air New Zealand taking a "cautious" approach (i.e.non implementation) until they can evaluate overseas experience.

Dratsab: You also have to remember that this is in the US. I can see Air New Zealand taking a "cautious" approach (i.e.non implementation) until they can evaluate overseas experience.

Geektastic:

Dratsab: You also have to remember that this is in the US. I can see Air New Zealand taking a "cautious" approach (i.e.non implementation) until they can evaluate overseas experience.

Why? Assuming the CAA follow suit, Air NZ's planes are the same as everyone else's, excepting the fact that they are usually more expensive to sit in!

networkn:

Geektastic:

Dratsab: You also have to remember that this is in the US. I can see Air New Zealand taking a "cautious" approach (i.e.non implementation) until they can evaluate overseas experience.

Why? Assuming the CAA follow suit, Air NZ's planes are the same as everyone else's, excepting the fact that they are usually more expensive to sit in!

Airlines set their own policies, and AirNZ has always taken a slow approach to adopting policies like this. I expect to see it mid to end of 2014 unfortunately. 

Dratsab: I think networkn is aware of this and wasn't trying to suggest airlines could set policies which override the CAA but rather that they set policies (slowly) in accordance with provisions of the CAA regulatory framework. In a case like this the CAA will not come out and say airlines *must* allow passengers to use their electronic devices, they will say airlines *can* allow it then leave it to each individual carriers discretion.