Scandinavian Airlines said Saturday that it has prohibited passengers from using the Galaxy Note 7 on its flights because of concerns about fires.
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The FAA has issued a warning to passengers in which it strongly advised them to not turn on or charge the phone during a flight.
The call from the world’s largest smartphone maker comes amid reports of the phones catching fire. It also said it was working with Samsung and hoped to have an official recall “as soon as possible”.
Earlier this week, Samsung said it would be recalling all 2.5 million handsets worldwide.
The commission is still deciding whether Samsung can issue replacement Galaxy Note7s.
Note 7 customers will still be able to bring the phones on flights on the Australian carriers, the ban extends to the phones being plugged into flight entertainment systems where USB ports are available. There are already rumblings that Disney is looking at banning the phones, though it’s going to be hard to do when so many people have similar phones, and when Samsung eventually replaces the original phones with new models.
The Korean company is offering to exchange all affected Galaxy Note 7 phones with a replacement device using a safe battery.
In the past two days, several Australian airlines and governmental aviation agencies in both India and the United States have announced that they are limiting if not outright banning the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 aboard aircraft.
Qantas and Virgin Australia also told customers not to use or charge the devices on their planes. Samsung released the jumbo smartphone on August 19.
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The Samsung Galaxy S7 did go a long way to improve the reliability of support for Android software; however it wasn’t good enough to stop Amazon beating them to the number one spot.
