On 06/04/2012 09:28, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 08:39:17 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.

Because business class is where an airline gets most of its revenue
from. Get shorty with a businessman and he tells his travel department
that they were not nice, which could translate into less revenue for the
airline.