United Airlines Can Now Boot Passengers Who Refuse To Use Headphones (cbsnews.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/03/05/2049220/united-airlines-can-now-boot-passengers-who-refuse-to-use-headphones
- Source link: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/united-airlines-remove-passengers-who-dont-wear-headphones/
United notes that it will offer customers who forget theirs a free pair of wired earbuds. "Don't worry if you forget your headphones for your flight," the airline states on [3]its website . "If they're available, you can request free earbuds." You'd better hope your device still has a headphone jack...
Further reading: [4]Flying Was Already the Worst. Then America Stopped Using Headphones .
[1] https://www.united.com/en/us/fly/contract-of-carriage.html
[2] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/united-airlines-remove-passengers-who-dont-wear-headphones/
[3] https://www.united.com/en/us/fly/travel/inflight/inflight-entertainment.html#bluetooth-faq
[4] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/12/26/0912215/flying-was-already-the-worst-then-america-stopped-using-headphones
Shock collars next (Score:2, Funny)
Should just put Shock collars on all the cattle, I mean passengers
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Have you experienced the pleasures of Ryanair?
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Is Ryan still using pay toilets?
Re: Shock collars next (Score:2)
They haven't brought that in. Yet. I guess they want to get the standing-only stuff sorted first.
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I'm sorry, but "my right to listen to things that may irritate a couple hundred other people stuffed into a tin can with me" is just another rage-baiting Free-dumb that useless idiots demand
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spirit air does that UA is more upper class.
It's a start, I suppose (Score:3)
Why half ass it? Go all the way and install noise activated ejection seats!
Good. (Score:4)
It's not just on airplanes. People using the speaker on their devices in public places like coffee shops, restaurants, movie theaters, etc., have become an extreme, difficult to avoid annoyance. I don't want to hear someone's conversation, the music they like, or whatever rage-filled commentator they're addicted to. It's an aggressive intrusion into my sonic space, and I'd like to see rules made against it and enforced.
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What happens if you ask them to be quiet? We've had all types of results, one woman in a restaurant playing loud clips in her language same as the restaurant language started shouting at the staff that we were crazy; cool guy in the train sincerely apologetic; older guy pretending not to speak the language then found I spoke enough of his.... Usually they give in, sometimes passive aggressively, sometimes not. This is all in Western Europe, by the way
My wife flew to Bangkok recently, night flight, and the
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This is where I have fantasies of an EMI weapon that I can point at a phone and blow the electronics to smithereens. Someone please invent this. (Careful of pacemakers, I guess...)
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> It's not just on airplanes. People using the speaker on their devices in public places like coffee shops, restaurants, movie theaters, etc., have become an extreme, difficult to avoid annoyance. I don't want to hear someone's conversation, the music they like, or whatever rage-filled commentator they're addicted to. It's an aggressive intrusion into my sonic space, and I'd like to see rules made against it and enforced.
It gets even worse. People are literally watching videos on their phone in stalls at my office. Regularly. I don't want to be hearing your pundit's analysis of last night's sportsball game while relieving my bladder or bowels. And the worst part is, I've heard multiple different feeds at the same time, so it's not just one bad apple.
Almost unbelieveable (Score:2)
That someone would be so rude as to a) leave their speaker on and b) not turn it off when told to by the cabin crew. Fuck this world.
Good! (Score:2)
Can they also force people to behave in a decent manner? Descent does not mean giving up your seats because someone else feels entitled, but it covers things like:
1. Not having a family party on board.
2. Not taking off your shoes and socks and stomping around.
3. Being hygienic, so your body order doesn't cause a reaction from other customers.
4. Being a reasonable size, which also means:
4a. If you need two seats, you buy two seats, or you don't board.
4b. Having reasonably sized seats available for ph
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> Decent ... covers things like:
> 2. Not taking off your shoes and socks and stomping around.
From [1]The Good Place [wikipedia.org], [2]Most Improved Player [fandom.com] (S01E08):
> Michael: This is a quick litmus test. A handful of questions designed to tell whether you are fundamentally good or bad. ...
> Michael: ... Did you ever take off your shoes and socks on a commercial airline?
> Eleanor: And socks? Ew, who would do that?
> Michael: People who go to The Bad Place, Eleanor, that's the point. And unless I can figure out a compelling reason to keep you here, you will spend eternity with murderers, and arsonists, and people who take off their shoes and socks on commercial airlines.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Place
[2] https://thegoodplace.fandom.com/wiki/Chapter_8:_Most_Improved_Player
Good (Score:1)
Of course "Americans" will be horrified and shocked they now actually have to behave on flights.
Connectivity (Score:2)
> United notes that it will offer customers who forget theirs a free pair of wired earbuds. "Don't worry if you forget your headphones for your flight," the airline states on its website. "If they're available, you can request free earbuds." You'd better hope your device still has a headphone jack...
My device still uses a pneumatic jack like the old-school airliners. I hope they still have those stethoscope thingies on board, otherwise everyone is going to be listening to my scratchy loop of lounge music.
Not to be a smartass... (Score:2)
but what if you're consuming something like a video silently, whether it be with subtitles, or your ability to read lips, or maybe you're catching up with the latest funny moving pictures from that hilarious scamp, Charlie Chaplin?
Would they still take issue? Or only when there's noise being made from it?
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Obviously no one gives a shit if it's not making noise.
Great! (Score:2)
This is awesome news. Now, can we extend that to restaurants and public transport too, please?
Re:United Airlines is the worst (Score:4, Insightful)
Nah, I would appreciate this, and really can't imagine having to listen to another passengers media because they don't have, don't think they need headphones
Re: United Airlines is the worst (Score:2)
Never the "almost" the worst -- they've been upgraded.