What is this obsession airlines have about mobile phones? They apparently "interfere with the systems of the aircraft"
Wow. Its a good thing Bin Laden and his happy band of lunatics haven't thought of that little wheeze. All that effort in smuggling explosives or knife wielding maniacs into the cabin, and all they have to do is turn a mobile phone on and call their long suffering mother while at 30,000 feet, thus sending the plane into a death spiral over the nearest populated metropolis.
We need some honesty here. If the airlines said "Look, put the electronic gizmos away during take-off and landing; we need your attention in the event something Bad happens. Engines dropping off. That sort of thing. And as for mobile phones, well if you can't go for more than 60 minutes without irradiating your brains with the damn things and driving your fellow passengers into homicidal rages with your non-stop bleating of "Hello? I'm on the plane! What? I can't hear you!" then you'll find the emergency exits there, there and there. Thank you."
Now read that and imagine it in the smiley tones of a steward or stewardess with a grin (or grimace, depending on your perspective) painted on with the same thick brush as that used for their fake tan.
Rant over. I'm spending far too much time in planes at the moment, and I think 'the script' is starting to get to me...
