Cell Phone Use Rules
Southwest Airlines Customers with cell phones onboard are allowed to begin using them after the flight attendant gives permission to do so upon landing at the destination and taxi to the airport gate.
Customers do not need to wait to use cell phones until an arriving aircraft is parked at the gate and the door is opened. Customers are now able to use their cell phones upon arrival in a city while the aircraft is taxiing to the arrival gate. Southwest Airlines flight attendants onboard will make announcements to inform Customers when they can begin using a cell phone or pager.
Southwest conducted the required Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) testing to ensure that cell phones did not interfere with ground navigation equipment during taxi. Its test results showed no avionics or ground test anomalies.
