[QUOTE]Originally posted by Old Gold:
[B]Virgin Atlantic offers mobile phone lovers the opportunity to keep talking throughout the flight:

Yikes! Sounds like a nightmare to me. On a recent 2.5 hour layover at LAX I ended up moving 3 times because someone would sit down next to me and start yelling into their cell phone for an extended period of time. And all I wanted to do was enjoy the latest Tom Clancy novel. At least I could move.

Then, when I boarded my plane, the FA had to tell the loud guy in 3C to turn off his cell phone 3 times before the guy finally complied. I shudder to think what the flight would have been like if this guy could have continued his sales calls the entire time.

So even if the powers that be decide that cell phone use on a flight is OK safety-wise, I hope that the airlines I fly continue to ban it.

Just my opinion.