Aircraft journeys used to be a phone-free haven but as airlines - including those operating in New Zealand - introduce in-flight mobile calling, the question is whether passengers will take to it.
Last week Britain's Daily Mail reported that use of mobile phones had been approved on Virgin Atlantic's new A330 Airbuses, a first for a British airline.
The anti-noise action group Noisedirect was expecting a new flood of disgruntled passengers on planes, the newspaper reported.
Air New Zealand says one of its domestic fleets is already equipped with the technology to allow mobile voice calling - but requests that all phones be set to silent.
The Telecommunications Users Association of New Zealand favours people using the internet or email, but believes mobile calling on aircraft must be kept to a minimum.
"The last thing I want is to be sitting on a plane next to somebody who is micro-managing their team for an hour - that would be awful," said association chief executive Paul Brislen.
But data and text "can be done quite quietly", he said.
Qantas, which operates subsidiary Jetstar in New Zealand, has no plans to introduce voice call capability on flights.
Air New Zealand Data Centre Programme Completes
Air New Zealand has successfully migrated its full IT footprint to new data centre facilities and is now the only New Zealand corporate to have its production and development systems supported by Tier 3 or above availability across two separate commercially available sites.
Air New Zealand is now operating from the Civil Defence rated data centre in Airedale Street, central Auckland, operated by Gen-i.
The airline has also recently completed its migration into a second data centre, housing production and development systems located in Highbrook, South Auckland, operated by IBM.
Air New Zealand Chief Financial Officer Rob McDonald says the IT programme spanned two years and represented the largest IT infrastructure change programme undertaken to date at the airline
“Far beyond a logistical ‘lift and shift’ exercise, Air New Zealand seized the opportunity to build new where appropriate and decommission legacy platforms,” says Mr McDonald .
Boeing 787 Dreamliner to visit New Zealand
Air New Zealand will host the next-gen jetliner at Auckland International Airport on May 29.
But unlike the first Boeing 787 to visit Auckland in November 2012, which was packing racks of sophisticated test equipment, the Dreamliner we'll see next week is dressed to impress.
The DreamTour airplane – bearing registration number N787BX, serial number ZA003 and flying under callsign BOE 787, if you’re into that sort of thing – is designed to showcase key ‘passenger experience’ features of the 787.
This includes the large welcoming entrance, super-sized windows with electronic dimming, bigger overhead and dynamic LED lighting.
The airplane is also configured with 135 seats which will carry an exclusive group of passengers on a special ‘Dream Flight’, from Sydney to Brisbane and back, during its Australian visit on Saturday May 26.
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