{"id":545,"date":"2013-10-31T10:19:48","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T14:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guruoftravel.com\/?p=545"},"modified":"2013-10-31T10:19:48","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T14:19:48","slug":"faa-evaluating-onboard-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guruoftravel.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/31\/faa-evaluating-onboard-electronics\/","title":{"rendered":"FAA Evaluating Onboard Electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Remember when there used to be a smoking section and a non-smoking section on airplanes?&nbsp; Ok, I don&rsquo;t really remember it (I have vague recollections from when I was 5 or 6), but the whole &ldquo;turn off your electronic devices until we&rsquo;re above 10,000 feet&rdquo; may end up becoming a similar nostalgic reference.<\/p>\n<p>The FAA is meeting today to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2013-10-31\/air-passengers-to-see-wider-use-of-electronics-on-flights.html\">evaluate and establish a plan<\/a> for whether or not to ease restrictions on when electronic devices that can be used on planes.&nbsp; One thing to note is that although the restrictions on electronics may be relaxed, it makes sense that some of these new rules might only apply to small devices like phones and handheld e-readers.&nbsp; In the event of an emergency, any loose objects can immediately become a projectile, so the use of large devices such as laptops may still be limited during take-off and landing.&nbsp; It&rsquo;ll definitely be interesting to see how this plan develops&hellip;.<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wwm_social_share wwm_top_left\"><li class=\"wwm_pinit\"><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when there used to be a smoking section and a non-smoking section on airplanes?&nbsp; Ok, I don&rsquo;t really remember it (I have vague recollections from when I was 5 or 6), but the whole &ldquo;turn off your electronic devices until we&rsquo;re above 10,000 feet&rdquo; may end up becoming a similar nostalgic reference. The FAA is meeting today to evaluate and establish a plan for whether or not to ease restrictions on when electronic devices that can be used on planes.&nbsp; One thing to note is that although the restrictions on electronics may be relaxed, it makes sense that some <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.guruoftravel.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/31\/faa-evaluating-onboard-electronics\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  FAA Evaluating Onboard Electronics<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>FAA Evaluating Onboard Electronics - Guru of Travel<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.guruoftravel.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/31\/faa-evaluating-onboard-electronics\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"FAA Evaluating Onboard Electronics - Guru of Travel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Remember when there used to be a smoking section and a non-smoking section on airplanes?&nbsp; Ok, I don&rsquo;t really remember it (I have vague recollections from when I was 5 or 6), but the whole &ldquo;turn off your electronic devices until we&rsquo;re above 10,000 feet&rdquo; may end up becoming a similar nostalgic reference. 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