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Addressing TSA In-Flight Restriction Rumors From The Sky

December 29, 2009 at 1:04 PM | by | Comment (1)

The rumors of in-flight entertainment black outs have been, in our experience, greatly exaggerated. We are currently high over Pennsylvania on board a Virgin America flight heading from JFK to SFO. Granted, the flight is domestic, and we are far from entering the last hour of the flight, but so far (and this is our second flight today) it is business as usual.

Gogo/Google WiFi is four bars strong, the seat belt sign is off, we are free to move about the cabin, and personal electronics are in full use, obviously. As for all that crazy secondhand chatter about knee-jerk domestic restrictions—well, we just aren't seeing it, at least at the moment. Quite possibly it is pilots discretion, but it is even more possible that the 140-character twumor (twitter rumor) mill was out of control. After all, how many celebrity death hoaxes have there been on Twitter anyway?

Have your own in-flight tsa restriction rumors to file? Go ahead and log 'em in the comments below.

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I too, was free to move about the cabin

In the last hour of my flight yesterday from EWR to LAX. The pilots didn't make any announcements re: security changes either.

However, Mike did get an extra patdown by TSA. But who knows what that was about?

juliana on December 30, 2009 at 10:48 AM #Permalink

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