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PHX: Thanks a lot got taking to reply here. I wouldn't have got a reply earlier than this else where. I am sure u work for AA and get paid to reply here and you are doing a good job.

And to Yr point (and that of Gro...) of being arrested and imprisonment.. all that are far fetched and extreme measures and it would have unfortunate for everybody involved if that had happened.
You totally missed the point: I never said I will not obey the "orders" and keep my phone ON no matter what !!!! I just said I need few moments to switch it off. They never gave me any time. It was a small plane and they made the announcement and came to my seat and remained there waiting for me to turn it of. I have never seen that before. I observe that every week when I fly. They make announcements and go on rounds and make announcements again and by that time everybody complies.

And I am not even defending my actions. I am just saying that asking to leave the plane was a little too much.
Laws are made for the safety of people and using a cell phone for 2 more minutes was not going to cause any harm to anybody.

To all AA representative here......"Its easy to say that I dis-obeyed and that's why I was punished" But the situation could have been handled in 100 other ways and it was unfortunate that the FA chose this way.

To substantiate Jim.... point that there is no consistency on how FA behave.... on my next flight... the FAs were very cheerful and pleasant. They kept standing behind a passenger (without him noticing and smiling while he kept using his phone after the announcements. She waited fr a while and they asked him to switch off and in a very cheerful ways.
But I was not so lucky my flight got some FA who just wanted to prove that they had powers. Which, BTW, Nobody denies'

-PKG