Not all the way NWA, but will feel tons better after typing it.....lol

I will switch all of my 140k-150k NWA miles a year to the first airline that bans cell phone usage on an airplane. This means banning before the aircraft door has been closed and quite a few times recently after the aircraft door has been closed. I am so freaking tired of getting on board and having to listen to 5-6 different cell phone conversations going on at the same time. I am sorry people, but nobody is that important to have to call 4 different people to tell them their flight information or whether the shipment of chicken livers will make it or that the toilet paper in the World Club was rough. Think back before cell phones and try to count how many times you saw another passenger use an air phone provided in the back of the seat in front of you. If the news or information was not important enough back then to pay $9.95 a minute, then it should not be important enough now that you have a cell phone.

How can a family of 5 (father, mother, guessing a 3, 5 and 8 year old) be allowed to get onto an aircraft with seats in 5 different rows? Of course, the poor family usually has limited English skills and does not understand how to get their issue resolved. I am not complaining about the family, I am wondering how in the hell does a NW ticket agent or gate agent not catch this?

How is it that with the new TSA security guidelines coming into play this week, there are two things that continue to befuddle me? Why do I think that I have better chance of survival flying in a 747 loaded with terrorist (whether they are Muslim extremist or the 2 year old terror sitting next to me) and each terrorist has a loaded bomb and I think that I have a better chance of living through this flight than I do driving to or from the airport? How about this sight on a flight this week? Guy is .....ing and moaning on his cell phone about the terror issue and how they should just shoot all these terrorist guys. Tells someone sitting next to him that he is sick of this stuff and might stop flying due to his concern over the safety issue and he has 2 young children and wonders if the airline would raise his family if he was killed by a bomb on the airline, etc. I am laughing because the SOB is grossly overweight, crushing down a couple of hotdogs and had like a huge sub sandwich with a large bag of chips and was asking the FA for a Pepsi before takeoff because they had thrown his drink away at the checkpoint. And, this guy is worried about dying on a flight blown up by a terrorist? Laughing