Not at all. I was once in the middle of asking a guy who was trying to get his case down form the overhead to sit back down for my safety, not his, when the pilot, who was taxiing to the gate, suddenly applied the brakes rather hard. They guy got floored in the aisle, and his case landed heavily on him. I grinned like mad; he glowered and wouldn't catch my eye.

At the *A Mega Do in FRA last autumn, one of LH's senior pilots told us that he had an altitude warnng alarm go off at 38,000 feet causing some nose lifting and head scratching - they traced the problem back to a number of phones being left on - when seeking a network and not finding one, the GSM cells up their power - this caused a surge along some cable or other on the plane and the alarm sounded. I've been extra sure to have my phone off since then.