Vital statistics
Of the top 10 nationality arrivals into the US none of them transit thru any of the 10 airports. Arrivals from country 11 are 2.5 million annually of which 1.3 million trabsit thru DXB, AUH, IST & QTR (I suspect this number is almost double as statistics are kept by nationality. A large number of this countries travellers have US or other nationalities but live/visit their country of birth regularly). The country number 11 is not on the banned list & also has direct flights to the USA & via all European Hubs. A 20 year backward look also shows that none & I state zilch have any inflight incident in specific relation to a terrorist type incident that has originated from any lapses of these 4 airports. The issue is not about the laprop ban, but with a warning on potential terror attacks on these flights, it will scare the travellers from country 11 to "fly buy Dubai" & push them back to the European hubs.
Last edited by Wannabe Flyer; 23rd Mar 2017 at 04:43.