WTF Stories of the Week

[Alex]

The article specifically mentions that it wasn't done in response to any intelligence, just their own internal process of looking at things that could be exploited.

Personally I think sounds like a stupid over-reaction to a low risk but the reactions in the article are as well. Sudden decompression at 35,000 without immediate access to oxygen isn't really a death risk to most people unless, for some reason, the pilot decides to keep the plane at altitude (after all, people free climb Everest to 30k feet without supplemental oxygen, unpleasant but not fatal).