{"id":2969,"date":"2014-09-25T11:59:58","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T16:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2969"},"modified":"2014-09-25T11:59:58","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T16:59:58","slug":"time-wasted-on-planes-when-you-cant-use-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2014\/09\/25\/time-wasted-on-planes-when-you-cant-use-devices","title":{"rendered":"Time wasted on planes when you can&#8217;t use devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tend to travel on planes quite often, and I\u2019ve always been annoyed by the fact that you have to turn off your electronic devices during take-off and landing. I thought life would be better when you could keep your tablets on in flight mode (thus not requiring me to carry physical newspapers on-board or even magazines).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/byte\/121807400\" title=\"F1 airshow by Colin Charles, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/34\/121807400_48af7fea3a_m.jpg?resize=240%2C160&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" alt=\"F1 airshow\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\"\/><\/a>In the USA and in the UK, this is no longer a problem (it hasn\u2019t been at least since the end of last year), I was always hoping that the Asian carriers I tend to fly (Singapore Airlines &amp; Cathay Pacific in particular) would modernise.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I fly to Singapore from KL, and that\u2019s about a 45-minute flight. One day I measured how much time I was wasting without using electronic devices:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>26 minutes 45 seconds upon takeoff &#8211; announcement, taxi, takeoff (KUL-SIN)<\/li>\n<li>14 minutes upon landing &#8211; here during taxi, you can use electronic devices\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>41 minutes wasted, is almost as long as the flight ;-)<\/p>\n<p>So it is with great pleasure that since the middle of the year (July 2014), Singapore Airlines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/news\/singapore\/transport\/story\/laptops-tablets-allowed-sia-flights-start-end-including-take-and-land\">allows<\/a> you to use your devices (not laptops, but thats ok &#8211; tablets\/phones are good enough for now) in flight-safe mode, and Cathay Pacific just <a href=\"http:\/\/theforwardcabin.boardingarea.com\/2014\/09\/02\/cathay-pacific-extends-use-portable-electronic-devices-onboard-flights\/\">allowed<\/a> this as of mid-September 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Now, when will Malaysia Airlines, and AirAsia wake up? Presumably this has a lot to do with the Malaysian Department of Civil Aviation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tend to travel on planes quite often, and I\u2019ve always been annoyed by the fact that you have to turn off your electronic devices during take-off and landing. I thought life would be better when you could keep your tablets on in flight mode (thus not requiring me to carry physical newspapers on-board or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,59],"tags":[850,1692,1691,854,1043,1690],"class_list":["post-2969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-travel","tag-cathay-pacific","tag-electronic-devices","tag-flight-safe-mode","tag-plane","tag-singapore-airlines","tag-time-management"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-LT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2970,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969\/revisions\/2970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}