United Airlines today announced that it plans to distribute Apple's new iPhone 6 Plus to more than 23,000 of its flight attendants during the second quarter of 2015.This is an incredibly smart business decision.
The phones will be able to handle "most onboard retail transactions" such as food and drink purchases, and will allow flight attendants to access their email, the United.com website, the United Airlines Intranet, plus policies and procedures manuals.
The military -- at least the USAF, and I assume all branches -- pretty much went on-line with just about everything starting back in the early 2000's -- including electronic medical records. I think there was a story some time ago about American Airline pilots ditching those huge black briefcases and replacing them with iPads. Yes, here it is (the story).
I'm impressed. Good for United.
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