Dan McIntyre, 67, of Granite City, Ill., who retired from T.W.A. in 1992 as a ground service employee after 40 years with the airline, pocketed his first swizzle stick in 1952.
For years, airlines pocketed your luggage fee even when they lost your bags, until the government stepped in.
Mr. Brooks considers golf course design, the contents of the Sky Mall catalog found in airline seat pockets, listings of most popular baby names.
Blumenthal said that the idea behind the company came when a friend left a $700 pair of glasses in an airline seat pocket.
Airlines can pocket the difference in lower running costs.The driver for this change is the increasing demand for tuned-down wide-bodies in Asia, now the fastest-growing part of the market.
Airline seat-back pockets have become repositories for toenail clippings, dirty diapers and old food, among other things.
The production, by Ms. Manich, with costumes by Carla Bellisio, is updated to a quirky version of the present: Nero and his courtiers wear stylized business suits (sometimes with sashes); soldiers wear odd uniforms of no identifiable country, with insignia that look borrowed from airline-pilot breast pockets.
That's in part because every flight began with the crew giving the passengers preflight instructions in case of an emergency, and the airline distributing those pocket guides.
There's a pass through for your luggage handle, a pocket for your airline tickets, and the laptop pocket folds out and lays flat, which allows you to send the whole bag through the xray machine without taking the laptop out of the bag.
The money doesn't annoy me, though – it's the difficulty of squeezing them into the tiny little elasticised pockets behind airline seats into which we have to cram our necessaries".
