Lifted from that excellent newsletter, ABTN;
A survey carried out by You Gov on behalf of the Business Travel Show highlights that nearly half of people do not want mobile phones on flights.
Carried out between October 1 and October10 this year, 65% of people strongly disagreed that mobiles should be allowed, while only 23% agreed or strongly agreed that it was a good idea.
I'm with the 65%. And if common-sense does not prevail, I reserve the right to drown out the cretinous chit-chat of the idiot using his or her phone with my iPod's portable loud-speaker.
Or, to use my mobile to say very loudly that I'm only doing so because there's a half-witted, garrulous, loud-voiced cretin using a mobile nearby who is driving me to murder, and I need to speak to someone to help me to calm down.
That works well on trains, generating blissful silence once the applause has died down.