Britain To Follow The Us In The Banning Of Certain Digital Devices, On All Flights From All Middle Eastern Countries.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/21/exclusive-britain-poised-follow-us-ban-laptops-ipads-flights/

[anotheoldgit]

That should read, "From Certain Middle Eastern Countries".

[emmie]

personally i would ban all devices on all flights, the tap tap of a laptop, the chat on a mobile are major irritants.

[sp1814]

AOG

Your post is wrong.

Have a look at the article again.

[emmie]

if you remember Richard Reid the shoe bomber, how can you prepare for that, and the guy with explosives shoved down his underpants, or any number of devious ways that terrorists can undermine security.

[Samjenko]

Flying to certain ME countries, aog?

[Islay]

Whenever I have been on a flight emmie you are not able to talk on your phone due to there not being a signal apart from a couple of internal American flights that have wifi!

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

I have done and your point is?

[Samjenko]

Beg your pardon. I got the wrong impression elsewhere.

[anotheoldgit]

Samjenko

/// Flying to certain ME countries, aog? ///

from UK-bound flights on planes from Middle Eastern countries

[Peter Pedant]

the point is as far as I can see
is that they are OK in the hold

so in Trump terms - or as AOG posts again and again in a variety of subjects
they are banned but they arent banned ....

ho hum normal day on AB

[ToraToraTora]

as usual we all get punished for the islamic terrorists. To be fair though I won't ever go on one of these flights so I guess it won't effect me.

[ToraToraTora]

"if you remember Richard Reid the shoe bomber, how can you prepare for that, and the guy with explosives shoved down his underpants, or any number of devious ways that terrorists can undermine security. " - in the end emmie we'll all have to go through Balearic Naked! All the little Hitlers of the world in airports get ever more powers to screw up your travel plans on the altar of all this cobras. Do they not see that terrorism wins of we make our own lives unbearable?

[jno]

unless you live under a flight path?

[sp1814]

AOG

Digital equipment, such as laptops and iPads are not banned from flights from either the Middle East or anywhere else.

[sp1814]

A blanket ban on laptops / tablet computers is completely unworkable.

This would seriously impact business travel to and from the region.

Not sure how our arms dealers and energy executives would be able to work under those constraints.

...perhaps on visits to the region they would bring photos and clay models of guns and oil tankers?

[237SJ]

Now wait for the first hold fire caused by a faulty laptop battery.

[sp1814]

Or an errant Samsung Note 7.

[mikey4444]

AOG....your post says that certain devices will be banned from flights, from certain countries. But unless I have read the report wrongly, and I may have, that is not the case.

The carrying of certain devices in the cabin will no longer be allowed, but the carriage of them in the hold is OK.

So, if that is true, its OK for a laptop to explode in the hold, but not to explode in the cabin ?

[Peter Pedant]

// in the end emmie we'll all have to go through Balearic Naked!//

erm been done regularly in Manchester
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-2955399/Frustrated-traveller-strips-completely-NAKED-airport-pass-metal-detectors.html

fr ' instance - this one is pulkovo

in Manch they were arrested thrown off the flight and fined
( not a great sense of humour then)

having been thro it myself ( and kept my hair on) I reckoned it was one obnoxious security man and the travellers were stripping off in protest

[Gromit]

So no reading ane-book or watching a film on the way back from Marmaris, just have to get pu55ed for 5 hours.

I'm sure were all safer though, and the hold is bomb proof where as the cabin isn't.