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I really don't understand why certain airlines (almost exclusively Middle Eastern based ones) are affected but American and other airlines are not. If laptops a
by HaloZero 10y ago
I really don't understand why certain airlines (almost exclusively Middle Eastern based ones) are affected but American and other airlines are not. If laptops are a risk, what makes someone stop them from taking a United flight vs Emirates?
- mattnewton 10y agoThat's the key to understanding this. Makes less and less sense as a security measure, maybe it makes sense as an economic measure directed at middle eastern airlines?
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- pitt1980 10y agofwiw http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-35521646 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-35521646 a laptop bomb blew a hole in a Somali plane last year
- mattnewton 10y agoThat's good to know, but I don't see how this stops them doing it from other countries? Maybe it is just to make it a little bit harder to do?
- pitt1980 10y agoI don't really know, it might be a function of them having better confidence in the screening of people on watch lists in other countries or it might truly be security theater or maybe it is economically motivated the people who make these decision are working with non-public data, so its hard to know
- PleaseHelpMe 10y agoJust because you depart from a country doesn't mean your laptop is dangerous. Moreover, up til now there hasn't any paper or statistics claiming laptops are dangerous on flights. I am sure they are trying to hide the discrimination that lies underneath the ban.
- ajdlinux 10y agoThe UK restrictions do affect BA, EasyJet, Jet2, Monarch, Thomas Cook and Thomson.