) and whilst sat there this young bird comes in and sits down.
I work in the aircraft industry as an enginner and passengers are always told to turn off their mobile phones 'as it affects the aircraft systems' which I can tell you is a crock!
The real reason is so that people are more likely to pay attention to the crew, whilst they are carrying out boarding instructions and safety demonstrations, rather than sitting yapping on their mobiles causing distruption to other passengers who are trying to listen.
Can you imagine an aircraft packed with passengers, half of them on the phone, and a load of annoying ringtones going off every other second, it would be chaos.
It's quite simple for us though, if the passenger does not turn off their phone, or gives us any lip, we'll just off load them, or worse get them arrested! :tsk:
I think the same reason applies in hospitals, it's to try and reduce disruption to other patients, some of whom may be feeling bad enough as it is without a load more noise in their ear!
The real reason is so that people are more likely to pay attention to the crew, whilst they are carrying out boarding instructions and safety demonstrations, rather than sitting yapping on their mobiles causing distruption to other passengers who are trying to listen.
Can you imagine an aircraft packed with passengers, half of them on the phone, and a load of annoying ringtones going off every other second, it would be chaos.
It's quite simple for us though, if the passenger does not turn off their phone, or gives us any lip, we'll just off load them, or worse get them arrested! :tsk:
I think the same reason applies in hospitals, it's to try and reduce disruption to other patients, some of whom may be feeling bad enough as it is without a load more noise in their ear!
