Don't Switch Off Your Mobile Phone On This Emirates Flight

Believe it or not!

Finally, you can use your mobile phone while you are in the plane. Yes! In the plane, in the air.. for the first time in the human race in the airline industry..

This great achievement has been accomplished by “Emirates Airlines” ..
Emirates Airlines became yesterday “Thursday, March 20, 2008” the first commercial airline in the world and in the air traveling history to provide in-flight mobile telephony service to passengers, as the company said.
Yesterday, and on the board of Emirates Airbus A340-300 aircraft flying from Dubai to Casablanca in Morocco, passengers used this service safely during the flight on altitude reached 30,000 feet from ground.
"All seats across our fleet are already equipped with in-seat phones, as well as email and text messaging capabilities via the in-seat entertainment system," Emirates chairman and chief executive Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al-Maktoum said this statement.
This project was completed with AeroMobile providing the airline with the AeroMobile system (which allows the users to use their mobile phones with the minimum power).
"We know that many airlines are interested in AeroMobile and will be keen to follow Emirates' lead." AeroMobile chief executive Bjorn-Taale Sandberg said.

So, this system has been added and applied on Emirates Airbus A340-300 aircraft and has been installed and will be applied shortly on a Boeing 777-300.

The job was completed through the past 18 months with expenditures reached $ 27,000,000.

Sources: economictimes.com, uaekey.com, aeromobile