There is a long history where US carriers are asking the Government to boycott Gulf Carriers.
Now here it is the solution.
Now is the Gulf Carriers to move ahead, as nobody will sent his own computer or expensive Camera gears into a checked luggage. Unless they will provide a sort of compensation for free: Insurance with full coverage in case of loss or damage, increase of checked baggage allowance and so on.
I am sorry to totally disagree with 4runner. This is an economic ban, not a security matter. Is to allow US carriers to pick up passengers from Europe and bring in the US. So if the danger is a laptop or camera in the passenger cabin, I cannot understand how they can prevent it.
I can Fly from Doha or Dubai to any point in Europe, and then take a US carrier and fly in NYC. What is the difference? And what about the return sector?
And I cannot understand also the move of UK now.