I think we have had lots of threads about electronic devices and the rights and wrongs of it all.

Unfortunately as passengers and crew we are required to abide by the rules of the governing body of each different airline and in the case of UK airlines, this is the CAA.

We can debate all we want as to whether these rules are based on fact or not and what a waste of time they are but unless you campaigne to get them changed, you need to comply with them. As a crew member, we have no choice but to enforce them, so if we see someone using their electronic device, we have to request it be turned off. We can't decide for ourselves that we don't like the rules.

I and all other crew realise that many of you ignore these rules however as I explained we have to abide by them whether we agree with them or not.

I outlined above, BAs policy on passengers taking photos but as highlighted by others, we can't really make a judgement about whether the photography of the OP was reasonable or not as none of us were there. Also as I pointed out, at BA we have a large number of new crew which includes senior crew that have joined us from other airlines and they maybe have been getting confused to the rules. I am sure this is just a one off issue.