Downtime: children are still more annoying than mobiles

Last week's story on suggestions for airborne etiquette when using your mobile phone in the skies certainly struck a cord.

Reader "Paul Smith", no doubt the name he uses when checking into hotels for foreign software conferences, writes, "If a fellow passenger cares to bother my peace on a flight with their inane mobile chatter, I shall feel honour bound to remove the amusements from my children and see how the chattering fool finds having bored five and seven year olds for neighbours. You have all been warned!"