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

This really has nothing to do with NWA. I'm going to move it.

It may not have much to to w/NWA, but RACK that rant... 'specially the part about a nearby pax 'crushing' down a couple dogs and chips.

Read less, post more, lane.

For the 12839723423th that I have this on this forum, get ******* EARPLUGS. I hear people commonly complaining about things that they can do something about. Earplugs are really really cheap and you won't notice people talking on the phone so much. I don't want this banned as it is handy to get hold of people who board early and are sitting there for 30 mins with nothing to do. Also, being able to check voicemail is great when you land. Good luck getting people to stop doing that.

I'd say take flying lessons; get qualified and fly yourself--problem solved.

Honestly have given that some thought.

It's also three rants. Pleas pick your favorite "rant for the week", edit your post, and save the others for later...

Assuming the first is the actual one for this week...My Shure E3c's go in as soon as I sit down. When "electornics off" is announced, the ipod goes off but the plugs remain in. They stay in until the engines are off at the gate, and sometimes stay in all the way into the terminal. So the jabber jabber on phones, of other pax, etc., doesn't bother me. Earplugs work just as well.

How could you have posted the earplug suggestion 12839723423 times when you only have 207 posts? Regardless, I do carry a pair of the nice big orange earplugs in my laptop bag and usually have them in even when I am walking through the airport. This week, I placed them in my carry-on luggage and well, had to check that this week so no earplugs when I needed them.

[QUOTE=CPRich]It's also three rants. Pleas pick your favorite "rant for the week", edit your post, and save the others for later...

Assuming the first is the actual one for this week...My Shure E3c's go in as soon as I sit down. When "electornics off" is announced, the ipod goes off but the plugs remain in.QUOTE]

I many times also carry my Bose headphones and put them on and not listen to anything, but have you ever had a FA request you remove them when the electronics off message is announced even if you are not listening to anything?

[QUOTE=CPRich]It's also three rants. Pleas pick your favorite "rant for the week", edit your post, and save the others for later... QUOTE]

I did title it rant of the week huh and then posted three rants.....lol. Hmmm, bad week maybe or just never learned to count. Think it is a combination of both....laughing rt.

It's great to know there is at least one PERFECT person with no faults and such an easy going attitude as yours.

Perhaps you should find yourself a nice quiet hole and crawl into it.

Really there is no reason to share your rants with the rest of us, as no one cares.

Get a life!

Speaking of rants . . .

BA (and other airlines?) to and from London seems to be the leading contender...how does that match your travel patterns?

Obviously you care about my rant cuz you read it and then responded to it

My one question for the OP (I loved the fat guy slam - he's quite the role model for his kids - not!): what if it were just 5 or 6 conversations between seat mates? What's the difference? I agree that some people have bad cell phone etiquette (talk way too loud, as if they still don't trust the thing to work), but it seems that everyone is dogpiling that one thing. Take driving - there are plenty of other ways to be a menace on the roads - putting on makeup, shaving, eating, reading the newspaper, playing with the radio, turning to talk to the person next to you or in the back seat - but cell phones is the one that gets far and away the most grief.