The U.S. and U.K. on Tuesday banned people flying from much of the Middle East and North Africa from carrying laptops, tablets and other large electronic devices in the airplane cabin because of concerns about terrorism.
New security restrictions from the Trump administration require nine airlines based in the region to prevent people flying from eight countries from bringing any device bigger than a smartphone on board. Those devices will have to be checked into the luggage hold.
The U.S. ban will affect more than 50 flights a day from 10 airports in the mainly Muslim countries, including major hubs such as Dubai and Istanbul, according to senior administration officials. The nine airlines affected were notified of the procedures by the U.S. at 3 a.m. ET Tuesday and must comply within 96 hours.
The U.K. ban affects six countries,including two not on the U.S. list – Tunisia and Lebanon.
Top international carriers – such as Emirates Airline, Qatar Airways, British Airways and Turkish Airlines – are among those that will have to implement new restrictions.
Actually its a business thing… nothing to do with any real terrorist threat, British and American Airlines suck big time and lots of foriegn companies started getting into the market share… so to stop that the US and British are simply putting restrictions on the “competition” That will teach those Pesky Turkish, Arab and Malaysian Airlines… :v
Barbaad kar k Basra o Baghdad ka jamaal,
Ab chashm e bad hey jaanib e khyber lagee huee…
Ghairo’n say kia gilla ho k apno’n kay haath se
Hai doosro’n kee aag meray ghar lagee huee…
In the UK , Allah ka shukkar hai , the govt has still managed to keep its integrity ! They have put a ban on too , but not on certain carriers. I think they are more focused on locations .
But my question is , they have exempted Europe and other locations , why the specific locations only . If someone flies to europe and then into the UK , it will kill the whole purpose of this ban , wouldnt it
I think one of the biggest sufferers of this will be the people travelling on business .
On a p recentage basis, British Airway probably does not come close to Emirates in terms of taking off from Muslim countries. Emirates HQ is Dubai. So I think Faris-san may have a point.
^But there was no need to include any British Airlines (there are quite a few others wich are affected too) as America chose not to include American airlines in its ban if it was all about competition..
Every British airline that flies to those same destinations is subject to the same restrictions..
Correct. UK did go extra step and include d British airlines. But Emirates gets much more affected than say British airways. Since its hub is Dubai. That’s probably what swordsman and historian Faris Udeen was referring to.
