Originally Posted by AEpilot76
Maybe something did occur which is unknown to the rest of us and therefore they enforced this rule which is no longer policy. I've flown with very few captains who would enforce a rule such as this one if it's no longer policy. If the captain requested the flight attendants to enforce this rule, he may have very well had a good reason
I doubt it...this occurs frequently on EWR|IAH-->DCA - especially on EWR/DCA flights operated by Expressjet, which is why COInsider wants us to notify him of these occurances for correction. If CO's policy was to let the PIC have his/her say independantly on these security matters, they would just tell us so.