To think that Virgin Atlantic have a stupid & outdated policy

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I've just booked a domestic airline ticket for my mum. I paid with my credit card and the online form stipulates I give a landline number.

I don't have a landline number. The "live chat" link opened and I queried this. I was then told to put down someone else's number - " a friend of family member's number"

WTF

In Singapore to get a sim card for even a PAYG phone you have to provide ID, which I found interesting. I wonder what effect (if any) that has on crime.

My mum just about manages to use a cordless phone - but when we gave her a mobile, a few years ago, it languished in her bag, and was almost never used - in the end, she gave it back to us. I don't see her ever relinquishing her landline!

Cerisier - here in the US I had to provide a social security number to set up a PAYG phone for my PIL as well as an address. I don't think it helps too much with crime because I know authorities will listen in on calls if they want to. They don't even need a reason.

Going through the Holland and Lincoin tunnels here in NJ/NYC cell phones don't work. People have stopped complaining about this because I think they have realized it is done on purpose for safety reasons.

I have a landline. It just doesn't have a telephone connected to it. It's totally pointless - I use my mobile, no-one has my landline number and the only reason there is a landline is that it came with the package from Virgin Media. I get free outgoing calls on my mobile so can't see the need for a landline.

Do you use your mobile to hook up to broadband then Freckled?

The other reason we still use a landline is that I don't have to worry about making sure my mobile is charged, plus we get better reception on a landline.

My parents (who live in EU but not in UK) have an internet provider that doesn't require a landline. Guess what, they don't have a landline, just two mobiles. Not all people over 60 are afraid of technology.

OffLike - I imagine that, when I have teenage/adult grandchildren, they will be laughing at me for still using a mobile, and not having something implanted in my skull so I can communicate telepathically!

The only people I know with landlines are my parents and their generation of the family. Even my MIL ditched hers last year. Nobody here needs one for broadband. So no companies insist on having one.

I am probably the same age as your parents Katie, and all of my friends are in their 40s and 50s, so it seems odd to me not to have one. I expect you are right that it is a generational thing, and when DD is my age everyone will communicate by fairy dust or telepathy.

Altough we do have a landline as still use it as our main means of communication we aren't complete Luddites. We all have mobiles, and use Skype when OH is out of the country. DD also uses most social media sites and Facetime.

Bunbaker I am 41...my parents are late 60s.

I sympathise, quietbatperson - we have awful reception here. I don't know how many Gs we have, but I don't think it is many. We have to go and stand on the patio wall to send a text.

Rafflesway "I work in an industry - similar to Virgin Atlantic - and I think you will find it is for security reasons. We are happy to take mobile numbers so long as client can offer a landline number - which we would double check - too!"

Sorry but this is the kind of attitude that drives me mad. What security does providing a landline give?? Think about it.

Ticklemepurple - I'm not getting "het up about nothing". I tried adding my mobile number and it was rejected. Hence my post about this!

I always put my mobile number in both spaces, we do have a landline but I have no idea what the number is beyond the area code.

Never encountered a situation like you have where they insist on a landline.