Originally Posted by
configsafenot
Question regarding this new rule...
If, for example, you are already away from home on a multiple country holiday and you took your laptop and/or tablet with you before this new rule came into being and your flight home is from one of the countries listed as laptop/tablet banned.....where would you stand in regard to getting your laptop/tablet home?
Would you be forced to send it home by post/courier or would you be allowed to take it into the flight since you could prove that the outward flight was well before the introduction of the new ruling?
Partly answered in social media conversations I have seen quoted in the news where travellers already abroad were being told that:
(a) yes your laptops/tablets that went outbound in cabin must return in hold
(b) yes if you went outbound with cabin baggage only you will need to pay extra for that hold baggage (and presumably buy another bag)
This is for UK version of the ban. Notably no one was explaining who accepts liability for the items as airline typically won't, and travel insurance bought before the ban will also typically regard the passenger as negligent / acting-at-own-risk for putting them in the hold even when required to do so by the airline/security.
If the ban becomes long-term, liability will actually be the major issue - not pax being deprived of valuables for the duration of flight but rather being deprived permanently or banned from taking them. A system which tells pax that (some of) your valuables _must_ go in the hold _and_ that we don't accept responsibility for them you must insure them, when the insurance industry that says valuables _must_ go in the cabin to be insured, because in the hold is too high risk... is effectively a ban on travelling with them at all.