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An airlines industry-owned telecoms group that enables air travellers to use mobile phones, is looking to double the number of planes using its system by the end of the year, denying that their use annoys other passengers.
"We have had no incidents reported as yet. People who don't like it are the people who don't fly," OnAir chief executive Benoit Debains told Reuters financial television.
Speaking at the Paris Air Show, Debains said the system will be in operation in 80 planes by the end of the year -- from 40 today -- and is targeting 1500 by 2013.
Airlines that have signed up include Ryanair and British Airways, while Qatar Airways said the new Airbus A380 planes ordered earlier this week would be equipped with the service.
"There are around 17,000 planes in operation worldwide so it's still small, but we are starting to generate revenues," Debains said.
OnAir is owned by airlines industry IT services group SITA and Airbus. Debains dismissed questions about the group's financial performance as "irrelevant".
"The shareholders are not challenging me on revenues," he said.
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