No more laptops during the flight?

Cdn_Gringo said:

I for one am getting just a little tired of being the beta tester for new passenger restrictions. If those ion sniffer machines cannot sniff out explosives contained in a 4 mm thick tablet why do they insist on swabbing my hands sometimes twice before I get to the lounge? The new x-ray machines and body scanners were touted as being the cat's meow and would save us all from ourselves. What happened?

I can see this as prelude to "you need to rent one of our tablets on this flight to watch the movie." It's time to focus on security measures that don't take away from the flying experience and measures that do not directly inconvenience the majority of the travelling public.

Yes I guess everyone deserves the opportunity to fly. Some of the more ill tempered passengers who can't sit still without fighting, getting abusively drunk or peeing everywhere else in the bathroom except the toilet, probably should be banned from all flights for 10 years. That'll teach them to lose the attitude and behave.

Sure let's put all the exploding tablets and laptops together in the cargo hold where no one can can to them. I trust an airline employee or ground handler to pack my tech so that the screen is still intact when we get to the other end. I can see it now, loaded into a container after a Frisbee toss or two between uncaring apathetic ramp rats who probably can't resist the temptation to walk off with the gadget or slip "something" in the case in the first place.

Talk to your passengers while they are checking in. See if their travelling story and itinerary makes sense. Take this opportunity to explain the rules; Your 8 hour old child needs to sit in your lap, your monster backpack can't be declared as carry on, that stroller can only be used as far as the door of the plane, it can be chilly at 35,000 feet, "you might wish to put on some clothes that cover more than the bikini you are wearing", you can use your laptop to entertain yourself in a way that doesn't disturb your neighbor, not everyone enjoys Biggy Small at 80 decibels for 4.5 hours straight, you must remove the battery from your phone - nobody likes you sticking it in their face to capture them picking their nose because you think the twitterverse will get a laugh and it doesn't work at altitude anyways.

It seems to me that a lot of these so called new and improved security measures are nothing more than the product of a bunch of tired bureaucrats who need to come up with something new every few months so that they appear to justify their existence. People tend to eventually ruin everything and between the airlines themselves, the travelling public and the Govt., any enjoyment of flying is being sucked out faster than a by a hole in the fuselage. Eventually, someone is going to propose that all passengers be put to sleep, stacked one on top of each other and only woken up when they and their luggage are doing circles on the conveyor belt in the arrivals area.

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