{"id":12596,"date":"2012-05-16T01:39:43","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T23:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=12596"},"modified":"2012-05-16T01:54:35","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T23:54:35","slug":"virgin-atlantic-okays-in-flight-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/12596\/virgin-atlantic-okays-in-flight-calls\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Atlantic okays in-flight mobile calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The phrase &#8220;Can you hear me now&#8221; has entered the jet age.<\/p>\n<p>Passengers on certain Virgin Atlantic flights are now able to use their cell phones to make and receive phone calls at 35,000 feet (10,600 meters), the airline announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The British airline&#8217;s new service could be a blessing for business travelers who want to stay connected during eight-hour flights across the ocean. It could also be a nightmare for the passenger sitting next to them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I suspect most passengers, like myself, would prefer not to listen to somebody on the phone for what might be hours,&#8221; said airline analyst Robert Mann.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The phrase &#8220;Can you hear me now&#8221; has entered the jet age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,2833,2832],"class_list":["post-12596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active","tag-in-flight-calls","tag-virgin-atlantic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12596"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12609,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12596\/revisions\/12609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}