… will no longer stay on the plane. The NY Times reports that the media covering Obama and Clinton will end “off-the-record” chit-chats between the candidates and the reporters on the campaign planes:

This weekend has brought new tension to the campaign planes of Senator Hillary Clinton and Senator Barack Obama. Each aircraft was the scene of a standoff between press and campaign aides over what is reportable by traveling reporters at 30,000 feet. On the Clinton plane, the issue arose Saturday when a group of reporters – including Patrick Healy of The New York Times – told her press staff that they no longer felt comfortable allowing Mrs. Clinton to wander back and speak with them on an off-the-record basis. The issue came up again in the evening, when campaign aides offered to bring Chelsea Clinton back to speak with reporters – an unusual offer of access to the once-cloistered, former first daughter – but only if they agreed not to report about her visit. (After lengthy debate, the wee hours, the Chelsea Clinton interview would not come to be). And on the Obama plane, it was the candidate himself who tried to wander back for some unscripted, off-the-record schmoozing on Saturday. As reported in this dispatch from the Chicago Tribune, Mr. Obama walked back to say “hello” to one of the elder statesmen of the political press corps, Dan Balz of The Washington Post. When the inevitable scrum gathered around the two, the assembled reporters – including Jeff Zeleny of The New York Times — overcame Mr. Obama’s protestations that he had not come back with the intention of being quoted.