In message , at 10:20:17 on Fri, 6 Apr
2012, Graeme Wall remarked:
a lot of people used their phones while we were taxiing.

Quite a few airlines now allow use of mobile phones when you are taxiing
*in*. And if you are flying Business Class they aren't quite as shouty
about you turning them off immediately the plane pushes back, on the way
out.

This was about 12 years ago.

Before the fallout from Crossair Flight 498, then.
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Roland Perry