SINGAPORE: Japan's All Nippon Airways (ANA) has launched a mobile app in the Apple store in a bid to help its passengers relax while taking off, the airline said in a press release on Wednesday (Dec 17).

The mobile app, named ANA Takeoff Mode, is a puzzle game with relaxing music playing in the background, it said. Users will have to manoeuvre a ball on screen to collect points, added ANA.

According to the airline, the mobile app also measures the amplitude and frequency of the ambient noise inside the aircraft cabin. The audio profile will trigger an animation and message for the user when the aircrafts engines are at full throttle during takeoff, it said.

ANA added that the app is one of the first mobile apps to be developed under the US Department of Transportations Federal Aviation Administrations announcement in 2013, that airlines can safely expand passengers' use of portable electronic devices during all phases of flight.

It is important to ANA that we pay attention to every single detail to ensure a comfortable and enjoyable flight for all our passengers. We hope that it will help to ease and relax flyers, allowing them to enjoy their flight with ANA, said general manager of ANAs Singapore office and vice president of marketing and sales in Asia, Mr Mitsuo Tomita.

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