Reply #8: These restrictions are supposed to be only temporary...

[regnaD kciN]

I can't imagine making them permanent.

Too many businesspeople need their laptops to do work on board...and aren't going to want to entrust them to baggage handlers in any event. Not just because of damage, but because of the chance of someone getting to the information inside.

Then, there's someone like me. I have a photography business. If I get sent on an assignment to somewhere out of the country, or even a few hundred miles away, there's no way on earth I'm going to drop my camera equipment backpack on a conveyer belt and trust that it will make it to its destination undamaged. And I doubt many oridnary tourists would be willing to take that chance with their cameras or camcorders, either.