Nov
28
Who knew a simple ad for the iPhone could be causing so much trouble for passengers and some pilots. The ad deals with a pilot who checks the weather on his iPhone during a delay and 30 minutes later he is released by dispatch since the weather has cleared up. There is a lot of other factors that must go into getting released by air traffic control.
A tale that has been floating around the internet deals with a weather delay and a passenger looking up the destination weather on the iPhone and notifying the flight attendant. The pilot made an announcement to the passengers regarding this issue…
“If the passenger with the iPhone would be kind enough,” he began, “to use it to check the weather at our alternate airport, then calculate our revised fuel burn due to being rerouted, then call our dispatcher to arrange our amended release, then make a call to the nearest traffic control center to arrange a new slot time (among all the other aircraft carrying passengers with iPhones), we’ll then be more than happy to depart. Please ring your call button to advise the flight attendant and your fellow passengers when you deem it ready and responsible for this multimillion-dollar aircraft and its 84 passengers to safely leave.”
This is good for a few chuckles! Anyways, if you haven’t seen this iPhone ad, you can watch it now!