I brought my own whisky in TSA-approved quantities once. It’s against FAA rules for passengers to serve themselves, but entirely legal for flight staff to serve passengers their own supply. Apparently it doesn’t matter where it comes from as long as the airline is in control.

So I asked flight staff to serve me my own stuff. The guy refused, saying (incorrectly) “it’s against FAA rules…” I explained the rules to him, and he still refused. Perhaps the airline has their own rule against people drinking something they sell, but he didn’t say that. I didn’t fight it.. I just put it away. But he then apparently felt guilty, so he later served me an Irish coffee on the house.

So there’s a strategy there for getting a gratis screwdriver without ~~bringing~~ (drinking) your own.

Buggers won't let me bring my own entertainment on board. I said I'd leave the STTNG pinball on free play for anyone, even bring my own diesel generator to power it,😔

To my knowledge the problem with the pressurization system was unrelated, and not critical enough to have been a danger to the aircraft.

I heard the reason no one got sucked through the opening was because everyone happened to be wearing their seat belts. Technically, people are permitted to remove their seat belts to use the toilet, IIUC. So the timing of the door blowing off was critical to this policy “technically working”.

My problem is this: you have an anomaly of losing pressure in a safety critical operation. It could be any number of things that would cause that, from minor to serious. Considering lives are at stake, don’t we want someone to get to the bottom of it before risking people’s safety?

Imagine the chaos that could be brought if someone was able to bring a knife featuring a 6.1 cm blade aboard an airliner.

"Yes, yes, that should do the trick. Carry on, sir."

The previous 737 max failure with the defective angle of attack sensor is astonishing. Not that engineers make mistakes, but the cover-up and everything they did to avoid the expense of training pilots about the known flaw -- at the cost of lives. There is an hour long PBS documentary that shows how deep the rabbit hole goes. If you watch that, you’ll realize there is little hope for Boeing being safe. It’s a long line of systemic failure underpinned by business decisions.