If your planning to hop a flight out of LaGuardia, JFK or Newark Liberty airports for year-ending celebrations, you'll need to know the liquid carry-on law and if you still need to set your phone to ...

Most electronic devices are built-in with quick controls that let you shut off connectivity so that you can still use them safely on an airplane. According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ...

Plus, other uses for Airplane Mode besides when you're on a flight. Credit: Thomas Trutschel / Photothek / Getty Images We all know you're supposed to toggle on Airplane Mode when you get on a flight.

Your phone, when left to its own devices, is a needy little thing. It constantly pings cell towers, searching for a connection. On the ground, that's no biggie. In the air, those pings can interfere ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Not using airplane mode on your phone when you fly probably won't cause the plane to crash, but it's still safer if you enable it ...

A woman holding a phone, looking out the window of the airport. In many ways our phones have become the keys to our lives. We use them to bank, take photos of our families, and share those pictures on ...

Thursday kicks off potentially the busiest travel period ever for Houston airports, with an estimated 3.9 million people expected to fly in or out of the city's two airports. That's a lot of people ...

Ever wonder why you’re asked to switch your phone to airplane mode during a flight? The main reason isn’t that your phone will bring the plane down—it’s more about avoiding interference. While ...

Here’s why the flight attendant always asks your phone to be in flight or airplane mode. Flight mode, or airplane mode, disables cellular communication, WiFi, and Bluetooth and only permits the use of ...

(NEXSTAR) – Come next year, airline passengers within the European Union will no longer have to set their mobile phones to “airplane mode” when hopping on a flight. The European Commission decided in ...