Absolutely not (although internet access and text messaging - the quiet stuff - is fine by me). Its bad enough to deal with all of these idiots constantly yammering away in the terminal and while the plane is on the ground - much less have to be stuck next to one of these dimbulbs. If I have to make a call in the terminal, personal or not, I walk over to the wall or near the pay phones, because that is just common courtesy - something too many fliers (frequent or not) seem to lack. On two occasions in the last few years I have made a quick call while seated on the plane - both times to hertz to tell them my flight changed and had to get an earlier pick up time on my car. Both times I have then apologized to the people next to me (who looked at me like I had two heads)

I've heard everything from people yelling at spouses and co-workers to a girl breaking up with her boyfriend to some guy asking about Aunt so-and-so's bunyons (I swear - true story) while waiting at the terminal or on the plane.

In the terminal, I can get up and move away from one of these inconsiderate morons....in the plane - I'm stuck.

After a couple years of this nonsense, frankly, I'm rather sick of it. I've decided I'm done being polite about it.

For example, the Aunt's bunyons....after a few minutes I just looked at the caller seated next to me on the plane and loudly asked - "How is Aunt so-and-so anyways", and then something else. He looks at me and says: "Do you mind, this is a private call?". I told him, "then take it someplace private". The meaning was lost on this moron, so I continued to interrupt his conversation until he hung up. I have now done this on a few occasions. Fair warning - If you are seated next to me on a plane and start talking loudly in my ear on your phone - unless someone close to you is dying or giving birth, I will interrupt your conversation to the point where it is impossible for you to have it. SHUT UP! IT'S NOT THAT IMPORTANT AND NEITHER ARE YOU!

A few months back on a commuter flight, the FA asked that cel phones remain off until we were parked at the gate (odd these days, but true). Some woman immediately whipped out her phone and started yakking to what turned out to be some sort of relative who worked the ground crew in CLT - waving out the window to them while she talked to them. The FA made the announcement again, obviously trying to get this woman's attention - the FA was ignored. So I looked at the FA, looked at the woman, reached across the aisle, grabbed the phone out of her hand, hung it up and gave it back to her. Before she could say anything - the FA made the announcement again. She sat there and fumed, but left it off. Once inside she stopped me and asked me who the hell I thought I was. I asked her what made her so special that she could use her phone when instructed not to by the flight crew. She said something else but I just told her to go perform a certain act upon herself and walked away. (while getting off the plane, the FA gave me a big ol' grin).

In short - if you are annoying me because you are, as they show at the movie theaters, "Inconsiderate Celphone Man" (or woman) - I'm gonna give that rudeness right back to you.

I also once turned off a fellow traveller's Blackberry while approaching the runway for takeoff - just because he looked entirely too smug - he looked at me, but I think the shock of seeing a fellow first-class passenger in jeans, leather jacket and a Misfits t-shirt scared him from saying anything (but that's a bit off topic).

Any airline that allows cel phone use in flight, without some considerations made for the comfort of those of us who do not want to be annoyed by inconsiderate people yapping loudly while they are 12 inches away from your ear, will lose my business - and quickly.

Do you really need to call and tell someone that your plane just landed at the very second that it does?

And while I'm venting - why do people feel the need to use them in the bathroom? Just last week a guy at the urinal next to me was talking while doing his business - I yelled: "Do they know they're talking to you while you're taking a leak?" His face turned so red I thought he was gonna set off the sprinkler system. Again, not plane related, so it doesn't really bother me, I just wanted to mess with him.

Oh yeah - most phones have vibrate features - I wouldn't mind if people learned how to use them - your ringtones aren't that cool.