> ...could still be implemented for Europe if the threat level worsens. I see the electronics ban on flights from the Middle East as a sort of A-B testing of s

> ...could still be implemented for Europe if the threat level worsens. I see the electronics ban on flights from the Middle East as a sort of A-B testing of security theatre. If it had provoked a sufficient outcry it would have been rolled back or at least contained, but since the response has been pretty much a collective shrug we can look forward to a much broader roll-out backed by what's now a pretty good precedent. One more step down a slippery, slippery slope.