There have been many threads and posts about aspects of this one, I apologise for that but this warrants it's own discussion, IMHO.
This afternoon, Sydney to Per in Y I was sat next to a guy who after the obligatory chat, was a high flying lawyer. He was WP (saw his Q tag on the carry on, one thread down). Throughout the flight, about every hour, he turned on his phone (doubt it was ever off) and read and responded to emails and listened to voice mails. During descent, same thing and the FA told him to turn it off which he ignored. At this point I said to him "that should be off" to which I got the response (not exact words but close) "I have 1.5m FF points, I can do what I like".
Without wishing to open up the debate about the effect phones may or may not have on navigation systems, what should one do when confronted by this situation (these have been done in depth before), do members feel this sort of behaviour should be punished and if so how ? Flight ban for a month, fine ? Confiscate phone during the flight ?
This afternoon, Sydney to Per in Y I was sat next to a guy who after the obligatory chat, was a high flying lawyer. He was WP (saw his Q tag on the carry on, one thread down). Throughout the flight, about every hour, he turned on his phone (doubt it was ever off) and read and responded to emails and listened to voice mails. During descent, same thing and the FA told him to turn it off which he ignored. At this point I said to him "that should be off" to which I got the response (not exact words but close) "I have 1.5m FF points, I can do what I like".
Without wishing to open up the debate about the effect phones may or may not have on navigation systems, what should one do when confronted by this situation (these have been done in depth before), do members feel this sort of behaviour should be punished and if so how ? Flight ban for a month, fine ? Confiscate phone during the flight ?