muddyboots wrote:
I've never argued about it, honestly. Better minds than mine made that decision based on engineering, knowing that people would want to and be ticked off when they couldn't. So obviously it's a genuine issue, or could potentially be. And I'd rather not die just because some dummy wanted to tell his wife that yes, he is on the airplane and almost home...Dude can wait till we're on the ground and taxiing in right?
I've sat behind a clown who spent EVERY minute through 10K to back down out of 10K yakking on the AIRFONE on three legs of a trip a few years ago, just what I'd want is to be locked up in a tin tube full of people with diarrhea of the mouth X 215 and none of them with a shot glass of decorum.
I've also never understood the clown who insists on getting out of his seat while we're turning off onto the taxiway, your suitcase ain't gonna get to the carousel any faster. Several years ago @ SFO there were a bunch of standers as the gate agent whacked the side of the 737 so hard with the jetway that they all went down like bowling pins I laughed my
off!