Lufthansa and Air Berlin have expressed reservations about EU plans to introduce in-flight mobile phone service, citing passenger responses on the question.
European regulators yesterday opened the way for air passengers to use mobile phones to talk or text during fights in EU airspace.
Lufthansa, the biggest airline in Germany, was 'relatively reserved', according to a spokesman.
Both carriers said clients they had questioned did not want to be disturbed by neighbours' in-flight phone calls.
Neither plans to run tests on the service as a result.
Lufthansa said: 'We would rather develop Internet use onboard.'
Yesterday, the EU Commission unveiled regulations aimed at harmonising technical conditions and simplifying the attribution of airborne mobile phone licenses.
At the moment using a mobile phone while in flight is still a luxury limited to very few travellers for fear of interfering with the functioning of planes.
Some airlines, notably Air France, have already begun testing systems, however.
On a technical level, EU officials have proposed the creation of an onboard network that would communicate with the ground via satellite.
