But really no body listens to the rules anyway. I saw a passenger once happily texting away whilst the plane was taking off. So the question is - do we as their seat mates tell them to turn it off? Once on another Malaysian airline, Malindo, the plane was rolling down the runway and a guy from the Middle Kingdom decided to change seats during that time ... and while the crew can't see him doing so, other passengers did ... and yours truly yelled at him to sit down. He did eventually plonk himself down at the emergency exit seat ... and sat there , seat belt undone. Cabin crew came round and saw that he shouldn't be there. Spoke to him in English and Malay and he just stared blankly at them. Then the Purser came down and basically told him to get lost.