Strike Emirates from my list of preferred airlines.

The airlines cannot ‘enforce’ a blanket ‘no mobiles’ rule now, so how are they going to enforce a ’silent’ rule? Everyone will forget, then smile weakly when their crap ringtone blasts out 2 hours into sleep time, probably waking the bawling baby that just got settled.

And even if the call rings silent, the level of ambient noise in an aircraft cabin will mean anyone wanting to be heard will have to yell. Literally. Many will realise just how crap the experience of trying to conduct a call inside a tumble dryer is not optimal – especially at the likely prices. Unfortunately, those who will ignore the noise and their fellow passenger’s right to peace & quiet will likely be price-insensitive businessmen who bawl into mobiles on trains.

This is just appalling. Unless they are going to section off an area just for mobile usage, this will encourage air rage of the like you’ve never seen.

Or maybe I’m reading too much doom & gloom into this. A few ‘accidentally’ well-spilt cups of nice sticky juice should sort any aero-mobilists.

I’ve said it before: just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.

/m