Agreed

From Paul Kedrosky's blog:
"Air travel security restrictions are nuts. No shoes was bad enough, creating this U.S.-wide pajama party, but now this one: Nothing in the seatback pockets please. I kid you not:

'The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday that airlines whose flight attendants had been telling passengers that no personal items of any kind could be placed in seatback pockets were “following our guidance, if they are enforcing this with travelers.”
The agency’s response came after numerous inquiries following a flight I made from Denver to Tucson operated by SkyWest Airlines, on which the flight attendant announced before takeoff that, as a safety measure, nothing could be placed in seatback storage pockets — no eyeglasses, no ticket stubs, no iPods or bottles of water or magazines.'

My suggestion: Let’s go straight to no humans on planes. They’re just a general security risk, and they smell badly too."

TW: I used to fly a ton, 100K+ miles annually. I did not mind travel but since 9/11 things have gotten stupid (er).