Originally Posted by
MSY-MSP
This move by the TSA is a move that I see as a precursor to significant limitations on the ability to bring electronics with you on an airplane.
You've been saying that since the ME restrictions were rolled out. What you haven't focused on at all is the huge economic disaster this would be for the airlines (and hotels, and tourism locations) with both business and leisure travelers. Want to bring a laptop (no matter how light and thin?) You can't bring the projector you need to show your presentation. Want to bring an iPad on vacation to watch movies on the plane? Can't bring a Kindle e-reader to read on the beach. Want to bring an external battery? Too bad, you can't bring the thing you want to plug it in to.
It's completely ridiculous, impractical, and will destroy the airlines -- all for a threat that hasn't been proved to exist at all, much less on domestic flights between Orlando and Minneapolis or Los Angeles and Maui or wherever.