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What stops someone flying via a third country? Am I missing some logic here?
by NamTaf 10y ago
What stops someone flying via a third country? Am I missing some logic here?
- sampo 10y agoIf you want pure speculation: Perhaps you don't trust airport security in those countries to properly check the laptops, but you trust the airport security in third countries.
- lb1lf 10y agoWhy would anyone do that? It would be against the rules. Gotta follow the rules. /s On a somewhat serious note - presumably your itinerary would light up like a Christmas tree somewhere. Unless, of course, you swap identities en route. That would be against the rules, though. Also, in fairness, it may be that they have very credible intelligence that someone is planning mischief using a specific carrier or airport.
- tzs 10y agoWould travel via a third country actually raise any alarms? Surely it is common for people traveling for international business to visit their offices, customers, or suppliers in multiple places during one trip, so a business person traveling from Saudi Arabia, say, to New York, with a week in Munich in the middle would not be unusual.
- Gys 10y agoDirect flights are generally more expensive. So having one or two stops, more or less on your way, makes perfect sense.
- lb1lf 10y agoAh, mea culpa. I suddenly realized that the ban doesn't affect flights on the named airlines NOT ending up in the US. D'oh. However, if I were the TSA and I were serious, I'd just require that you surrender your laptop at the start of the leg terminating in the US - as you started off in a place they obviously have a grudge against, &c. (That would require you to book two separate tickets, if nothing else.)
- peterwwillis 10y agoIf they did it from everywhere at once too many people would complain and they would remove the restriction. This way it can be incrementally added everywhere with less push back.
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