It's 2024 and most people still comply and put their phones on air plane mode before take-off.
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Do you imply this is wrong or there's no technical reason to comply?
There is no real technical reason nowadays...
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/airplane-mode-reasons-why/index.html
“if it wasn’t important then they wouldn’t ask me to do it” 
The phones are levitating the aircraft.
Planes actually run on magical thinking.
Of course! You trying to bring the plane down just to send a text?! /s 😂
My phone gets hot when it can't connect to towers so I still do it