Good, 'cause when I go down there in August I'll be bringin' me scanner, and I'll be listenin' to ye!
A lot of US airlines I remember used to let passengers listen in to ATC conversations (pretty much how I first got the "bug" years ago). A lot of US airlines stopped after the AA DC-10 crash, as many of the pax were listening to ATC and watching cockpit video (AA had a camera in the cockpits of DC-10s so pax could watch takeoff and landing from the cockpit).