Originally Posted by
izanti
So I took a flight on ASA today out of MEM and ran into this "new FAA regulation" regarding items allowed in the seat back pockets. The flight attendant said it a was a new fed regulation that absolutely no items such as laptops/ipads were allowed to be placed in the forward seat back pockets during taxi, takeoff and landing. She went around to myself and a few other pax taking our ipads and placing them into the overhead bins. Once we reached cruise she went by and asked if we wanted our stuff back. Come sterile time she went by and took our things and put them back into the bin again.
Has anyone heard or experienced this before? I non-rev about 4 flights a weeks and have never experienced this. I did some research and found some info from about 5-6 years ago stating this was a new regulation from the FAA but this is the first I have ever seen it enforced. Was the flight attendant right in doing this?
This rears it's ugly head at various airlines every few years. Usually regionals who are getting intimidated by an anal cabin fed (whose BS wouldn't be tolerated by a major for a minute).