飞机能上网了，旁边的人开始开会了

Starlink makes internet on planes faster, but passengers have also started hearing the people next to them hold meetings.

Christopher Mosby was on a United flight from Chicago to Denver, and fifteen minutes after takeoff, he heard a work call.

Someone asked, "Can you see my screen?" But Mosby did not want the entire cabin to join someone else's meeting.

Another passenger, Oliver Louie, on a Qatar Airways flight, encountered a work call that lasted two hours.

That person was sitting several rows behind him; many passengers wanted to sleep, but they heard the work content from the call.

Fast internet lets people work, and it also lets one person's voice enter many people's rest time.

Airlines' rules about calls are not the same.

United prohibits passengers from making voice or video calls, including using the plane's wireless internet.

Qatar Airways allows calls, but requires passengers to wear headphones and speak softly, showing consideration for the people nearby.

Emirates and British Airways also allow calls under these conditions.

U.S. restrictions on in-flight cellular mobile network calls do not directly cover calls over airplane wireless internet, so airline policies are important.

Some lawmakers proposed the "Quiet Skies Act," hoping to ban in-flight voice calls, but it is still just a proposal.

Some people also oppose a blanket ban, arguing that rules should target behavior that disturbs others, distinguishing work meetings from brief "I'm safe" check-ins.

Boeing displayed the E-Lounge concept at an expo, like a small phone booth, intending to give people making calls a space and reduce sound leaking out.

This space is still only a design; travelers cannot now get on a plane and go to a room like this to make a call.

Starlink has brought convenience, and airlines and passengers still have to decide how to share a quiet cabin.

If your colleague asked you to join a meeting on a plane, while the people around you were all sleeping, how would you reply?