Thread: US bans most electronics from Middle East inbound aircraft

Originally Posted by Cold Pizza

No American carriers were affected by the ban, the officials said. Passengers would be allowed to carry larger devices such as tablets, portable DVD players, laptops and cameras in their checked luggage.

So US carriers flying out of the same airports on the same routes, with passengers who went through the same security would not be affected? Delta (especially) and some of the other crappy US carriers have been sniveling about the Middle Eastern airlines for years, this sounds more like protectionism than security.

Exploding notebooks, phones, shoes, underware, liquids and toithpaste. What next? A new Asia Air motto. Now everyone can fly naked.

Originally Posted by BobR

Originally Posted by Cold Pizza

No American carriers were affected by the ban, the officials said. Passengers would be allowed to carry larger devices such as tablets, portable DVD players, laptops and cameras in their checked luggage.

So US carriers flying out of the same airports on the same routes, with passengers who went through the same security would not be affected? Delta (especially) and some of the other crappy US carriers have been sniveling about the Middle Eastern airlines for years, this sounds more like protectionism than security.

And you have to ask why Bahrain is excluded from the list - almost certainly because the US Fifth Fleet and HMS Juffair are based there, and we can't inconvenience all those matelots can we?

Airline finds a way to work around electronics ban
As extra security measures on UK-bound planes are introduced, Turkish Airlines says it has a solution to the issue.

Electronic devices such as laptops and tablets, must be placed in checked-in baggage on flights to the US or UK, from today.

Mobile phones and medical devices, however, will be allowed in the cabin.

The US ban affects nine airlines from eight countries: Turkey, Morocco, Jordan, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

The British ban, meanwhile, targets flights out of Egypt, Turkey, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and Lebanon.

This has pushed Turkish Airlines to find a solution for its passengers travelling through and from Turkey to American and British cities.

People who are not comfortable seeing their electronic devices checked in their luggage will be able to use them in the lounge and then hand their devices to Turkish Airlines officials at the boarding gate.

Turkish Airlines released photographs of their new set-up this morning.

They show a hard case that will be used to store electronic devices handed in at the boarding gate. Each device is wrapped and tagged to be stowed in the hard case.

The case or cases are then taken to a special cargo area under the plane to be transported safely and then handed back to you at the baggage claim area by Turkish airlines officials.

Passengers flying with Turkish Airlines will also be given internet access onboard its flights to destinations implementing the ban.

There has been criticism of the electronics ban, with some people pointing out that many insurance companies will not insure expensive items such as laptops if they are not kept with the passenger.

Turkey's transport minister, Ahmet Arslan, said: "We particularly emphasise how this will not benefit the passenger and that reverse steps or a softening should be adopted."

By providing its new service from Istanbul Ataturk Airport, Turkish Airlines offers a "safe and secure method of carrying electronic devices in a special area in the cargo hold of the aircraft", the airline said.

The airline offers the service to transit passengers too.

Meanwhile, Tunisia has summoned the British ambassador to the country to protest the "unjustified" ban on electronic devices on flights to the UK.

The foreign ministry's head of European affairs, Mohamed Mezghani, told ambassador Louise de Sousa that Tunisia was "surprised" it had not been told about the ban before it was announced.

Mr Mezghani said the ban was "unjustified and does not reflect the security situation in Tunisia".

He also said that a 2016 report by the International Civil Aviation Organisation had described airports in Tunisia as among the "safest" in the world.

Airline finds a way to work around electronics ban

Originally Posted by Smug Farang Bore

I'm on Oman air soon. Hope they leave that alone for a few weeks.


The issue now is anyone going to inform the steeley eye'd Somchai when scanning you bags as I've heard of a few people having their power banks taken even though they were under the size.


"You go UK - cannot take - you give... cannot... cannot....!"

....and your shoe eh erh. ...

Hang on though mate, if the terrorists know they can't take their exploding laptop from Saudi, Doha, Dubai, etc., they've probably already booked on your flight.

The US ban affects nine airlines from eight countries: Egypt, Turkey, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Kuwait.

The British ban affects all flights out of six countries: Egypt, Turkey, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and Lebanon.

It's a bit strange that the US and the UK don't completely agree as to flights from which countries are most at risk (apart from the first four in the list, of course).

For flights from Europe:


U.S. to Ban Laptops in All Cabins of Flights From Europe, Officials Say

Acting on fears that terrorists can build bombs into laptops, Homeland Security has decided to expand the ban it imposed on Middle Eastern flights. Computers will now be checked as baggage.

Clive Irving
CLIVE IRVING
05.11.17

U.S. to Ban Laptops in All Cabins of Flights From Europe, Officials Say

Originally Posted by Cold Pizza

Possibley weak security at these airports.

This affects only direct flights out of these countries that don't stop on the way and land directly in US airports.

If there is a stop somewhere on the way, this rule does not apply, AFAIK.

And you know all about that "how"? Just your logical conclusion, eh?

Originally Posted by Neverna

It's a bit strange that the US and the UK don't completely agree as to flights from which countries are most at risk (apart from the first four in the list, of course).

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Originally Posted by TuskegeeBen

FYI ~ Mama

For your information "mama" is called Lizzie.

With the scanning technology they have today, I find it bizarre that they aren't giving airports an option to install newer technology.

I wonder if airlines like Qatar could "apply a little pressure"?

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Originally Posted by TuskegeeBen

Originally Posted by Cold Pizza

Possibley weak security at these airports.

This affects only direct flights out of these countries that don't stop on the way and land directly in US airports.

If there is a stop somewhere on the way, this rule does not apply, AFAIK.

And you know all about that "how"? Just your logical conclusion, eh?

You're an old member trolling.

Ant?

You should be banned.

Originally Posted by Cold Pizza

Originally Posted by TuskegeeBen

Originally Posted by Cold Pizza

Possibley weak security at these airports.

This affects only direct flights out of these countries that don't stop on the way and land directly in US airports.

If there is a stop somewhere on the way, this rule does not apply, AFAIK.

And you know all about that "how"? Just your logical conclusion, eh?

You're an old member trolling.

Ant?

You should be banned.

Says the wanker with the lorryload of reds.