If you’ve been waiting for the day when you’ll be allowed to use your cell phone while airborne, you should probably stop.

Because it isn’t going to happen anytime soon.

In March, the FCC announced that it has disbanded the investigation that would have possibly resulted in changing the rules about mobile phone usage in plane cabins.

While the reason for this decision was cited as ‘lack of evidence’ compelling a review on the subject, most road warriors (yes, including me) consider this the triumph of common sense - on two levels.

There is the safety issue. More than one pilot has traced technical malfunctions over the last 15 years or so to mobile phone usage in flight. And even a one-in-a-million chance is too much when you’re talking about the possibility of a problem 10,000 feet above the planet.

But then there is the practical reality. On a coach ticket, pressed closer to your neighbor than you ever got to your spouse while dressed, there is absolutely NO WAY one of you can slip out a phone and start yapping about whatever without the other turning into a homicidal maniac.

The flight itself has remained a sacred place of apartness. Where the office, the team, the deliverables, the deadline… can not reach you. OR your neighbor.

Bravo to the FCC for preserving the peace.

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