My Flights to Thailand will never be the same again! One of the last places you could be free from the mobile phone, on a flight, is no longer. An Emirate flight between Dubai and Casablanca seen the first mobile call made after Emirates airline became the first commercial airline to allow passengers to make mobile phone calls during flights.

The aircraft, an Airbus A340, is fitted with a system which stops mobiles from interfering with a plane’s electronics. Now I’m not 100% sure but I don’t think these aircraft are used to fly to Thailand from any destination yet, so for the time being your flight to Thailand will still be Mobile phone free, but for how long?

The full news report can be found at BBC website.

Am I alone in wishing this step was never taken? Do you need to contact people that often that even on a simple flight to your holiday destination you need your mobile phone on? Even if it’s a business flight would you not like to have the opportunity to turn the phone off and have a break from the office? On a long haul flight to Thailand would you use your mobile phone? Who would you call and what would be so important it could not wait till you got there?