Originally Posted by
husker267
I did a quick search and didn't find anything pertaining, so hopefully this isn't a repost. But I did 2 flights on UX last week, Den-Atl and Atl-Iad. And on both flights, announcements were made that window shades had to be up during landing. Very strange - the "requirement" wasn't enforced during takeoff. Is there some little known FAR that relates to this? On a side note, there was no mention of the prohibition of items in the seatback pocket.
Had this on 4 flights last week on UX -- shades up for both takeoff and landing. Had closed my window shade because of the glare of the sun, fell asleep on one of the landings and woke up with my shade reopened, so looks like they do take it seriously.
As for seatpocket stuff -- one FA checked all the seatpockets around me and even told one person to remove a paperback from the pocket!