However, there is no law against taking photos or video on an airplane, and it is unlikely that anyone would face legal jeopardy for taking pictures of an altercation on a plane or their own peaceful dispute with an airline employee, Larsen says. 'They are within their rights to establish these rules, they are within their rights to throw you off the aircraft if you continue filming,' says Joseph Larsen, a media-law attorney in Houston. But airlines have more power on planes because as private parties they are not bound by the First Amendment. Lawyers who specialize in First Amendment or travel law say airlines generally cannot limit photography or video recording in an airport because it is a public space. Travel bloggers say, however, that people have had run-ins with TSA officers, and you should expect to be questioned if you snap more than a casual photo of a companion. The Transportation Security Administration says that photography at checkpoints is fine if people don't take images of monitors or interfere with screeners. 'The TSA allows more photography at the checkpoint than the airlines allow on board their planes,' he says.

With airline customer service in decline, videotaping is the only way that passengers can make sure they are treated fairly, says Gary Leff, a travel blogger who has criticized the airlines over the issue. A spokesman says the airline doesn't publish its photography policy for security reasons. JetBlue declined to comment on the incident. He says he was ordered off the plane and held up at LaGuardia airport in New York for more than an hour before being let go without charges. 'I told them there is no rule against talking a selfie on a plane,' Nissensohn says. Michael Nissensohn insists that he wasn't recording the procedure. In April, a JetBlue Airways crew called airport police to meet a man who they said continued to record a selfie video during a security-sensitive time in flight, while the cockpit door was opened. After Navang Oza posted his video online, United apologized, saying that the video 'does not reflect the positive customer experience we strive to offer.'

This month, a United ticket agent ordered a passenger's reservation canceled as he filmed her while disputing a $300 baggage fee in the New Orleans airport.

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