Passengers again free to move around cabin - or not.

[gateley]

In-flight entertainment, items allowed on laps, other decisions left to pilots

CHICAGO - You are now free to move about the cabin. Or not.

After a two-day security clampdown prompted by a thwarted attempt to bomb a jetliner, some airline officials told The Associated Press that the in-flight restrictions had been eased. And it was now up to captains on each flight to decide whether passengers can have blankets and other items on their laps or can move around during the final phase of flight.

Confused? So were scores of passengers who flew Monday on one of the busiest travel days of the year. On some flights, passengers were told to keep their hands visible and not to listen to iPods. Even babies were frisked. But on other planes, security appeared no tighter than usual.

The Transportation Security Administration did little to explain the rules. And that inconsistency might well have been deliberate: What's confusing to passengers is also confusing to potential terrorists.

"It keeps them guessing," transportation expert Joseph Schwieterman said. (:eyes:)

more info - or not >> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34601479/ns/travel-news/

[liberal N proud]

1. Inconsistency, That will keep the bombers off the planes

Keeps them guessing.


:sarcasm: