Sorry propjockey, that my answer is a little bit sarcastic, but it seems, the safety of commercial flight operation is more impaired by flight crew, that are in possession of nail scissors and bottle openers.
Poor westerly world.
It looks, that bin Laden has reached his goal,
not by killing innocent people in a terroristic act,
but by driving the governments of almost the whole world to treat everybody as potential terrorist, annoy the own citizens and damage the own economy worldwide.
And of course diverting the attention from real safety issues to real nonsense.
To answer your question in a more serious way, if we turn over a violator of the "no mobile phone-rule" to police, because he endangers the flight operation, we get no backup by German Court, even not the own company.
So we keep on telling them: "you bad, bad boy, donīt do this again, or... (...or... what?)"
So the "important phone users" do not care, because they do not have to fear any consequences.
