Originally Posted by
MurphyWasRight
Seems that a better idea would be a "always fasten seatbelts" policy with the sign reserved and enforced as stay in your seats.
There is an interesting difference in safety policy between air and road traffic here. Where I live, traveling any larger distance by a bus that is not just local and uses a highway, the official policy is to punish a passenger who does not engage the seatbelt with a fine of just around €100. I never saw it enforced, and i doubt that it is widely known. And yet it is the actual rule. But imagine how unthinkable this would be in a passenger aircraft, regardless of how much. and possibly even more, sense it would make. The rules on wearing a seatbelt in an ordinary car are of course widely observed and enforced btw, with an important difference being that by disobedience you would harm yourself in an incident, rarely others.