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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Yes I chat with my spouse on the plane all the time. We also read and watch movies. Do you think everyone is supposed to be silent the entire time on a plane?

Yes. Yes I do. We are in a confined space. I don’t want to listen to you, you don’t want to listen to me. We are screen-free EXCEPT planes. I’m teaching my kids to be courteous in public spaces and not being loud is part of that.[/quote]

You must be young. Many of can recall a time when you didn’t have individual screens. I travelled a lot 20-30 years ago and believe it or not it was common to talk to the people you sat next to- even if you didn’t know them. [/quote]

This is a great point actually. Some of the expectations people in this thread are outline for planes sound insane to me and you're right -- it's because I've been flying for 40 years and it's really only in the last 10 that individual in-seat entertainment has become universal (whether on a seat-back screen or just everyone having a device).

In fact the most active travel period of my life was when I was traveling a ton for work around 2005-2010. This was around when smart phones emerged but not everyone had one and they didn't do as much as now. I had a blackberry for work. You couldn't text on planes and social media was still in its infancy so you never saw people just scrolling their phones. I always traveled with my laptop and worked on planes a lot (billable hours!) but I didn't really expect quiet unless I was flying business class (there are just fewer people in that cabin and mostly business travelers so it was like the "quiet car" by nature). Even in BC I would wind up chatting with a seat mate for some part of the flight about half the time. I made business contacts on planes that turned into clients or led to job offers down the road. And I know I'm not alone.

I remember it being a big deal when Jet Blue started offering seat back entertainment on domestic flights -- that was just for international flights for a long time. And even then I think it was just their NY-SF route.

The personal device thing really didn't take off until around 2015 or so. It's an extremely recent development.[/quote]

Ehh I’ve been traveling for the past 3 decades and I remember in flight movies being a thing even when I was a kid in the 90s (although I think we all watched on one big screen and wore headphones). I also read books while flying.

Today I just read on a kindle instead of packing a bunch of books. And I can watch whatever movies I want to download on my iPad instead of having to watch whatever the airline picked.

It’s the same variation of entertainment just with tech upgrades. I actually don’t see many people scrolling on their phones since you have to pay for wifi. [/quote]

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