IN mid-August, when I flew SkyWest Airlines from Denver to Tucson, a grouchy flight attendant announced before takeoff that “according to F.A.A. safety regulations” passengers could place nothing at all in the seat-back pockets. Not a newspaper, a book or a pair of reading glasses.
And, as I noted in a recent column, she enforced it like a drill sergeant throughout the flight. I prudently waited until the plane had landed before asking her where she got the idea that the Federal Aviation Administration had banned all personal items from seat-back pockets.
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