Originally Posted by Charles Darwin
I see only one way out of this.
Strip all passengers and handcuff them to the seats!
Taken to the extreme this would be sensible security in securing the cabin and aircraft environment and seperating bad items from bad intentions. Of course you could construe the whole thing as unfair business practices, as this would give airlines like Cathay and Singapore Airlines a huge leverage over union and seniority based airlines like UA/AA/etc, if the rules were applied to crew too.
-A