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The airlines enforce it, who must if they want to keep being allowed to operate flights to the US.
by frisco 9y ago
The airlines enforce it, who must if they want to keep being allowed to operate flights to the US.
- openplatypus 9y agoYet they also operate under EU law so it would be enough to make this practice illegal. I am afraid that EU goverments will bow to US rules. Or maybe this will be the final straw?
- dogma1138 9y agoThey operate under international and super national air safety authority regulations. EU law doesn't protect your rights to have an item on a flight, while they might not be banned in the EU when flying to the US they'll comply with FAA regulations. On board internet for example is turned off on flights to china from the EU per Chinese regulations as soon as the flight approaches Chinese airspace.
- pluma 9y agoThe US could deny airlines which don't implement the ban entry into US airspace. The US could also forbid them from landing in the US. The US could also raid the planes after landing or arrest anyone carrying a laptop bag that wasn't checked in as luggage. The US could do any of these things and there would be nothing the EU could do about it because they all would happen outside EU jurisdiction. As a European citizen I'm not sure what you believe the EU could practically do to prevent such a ban as long as it is only about flights into the US or within the US. It's literally none of our business.