Originally Posted by
Jenbel
I note there are various ways people justify not turning their mobiles/blackberries off. I fear that being forced to turn their phones off - by someone who has power over them - is found to be emasculating by all too many people. I mean, turning your phone/blackberry completely off for 10 minutes every so often isn't really such a big deal that people would come up with all kinds of justifications to leave it on .... wouldn't they?
Not sure people try and justify leaving them on. Alot of people forget I would suggest - usually FF's who never really listen to the briefing announcements anyway.
As for me - I do switch mine off, but always feel if they were even minutely dangerous they would have long ago been confiscated prior to boarding, their batteries removed and placed under lock and key in the cabin until arrival when each pax could reclaim at the gate.
The "mobiles are dangerous and must be switched off" directive went the way of the volcanic ash / SARS / swine flu etc etc 'elf-and-safety brigade with the "we are all doomed" messages - but long ago.
No wonder these "we are all doomed - this is very dangerous" type announcements get treated with such derision now. They have cried wolf too many times now