I have yet to speak to anyone who's happy about this decision. I don't have any problem with the idea that people will be able to use their mobile phones on a plane so long as they're texting, but listening to people's inane phone conversations might do more for ending the demand with cheap flights than anything John Gormley & the Greens could have dreamed of.
Talk about air rage. I can just imagine how tempers might shorten if some loud-mouth idiot never shuts up. It's already a nightmare on trains, but somehow it seems it'll be even worse on board an airplane.