HuMonster, I assume you dont take any part in the commercial parts of running an airline. Otherwise, I think you will find that banning Laptops would be very unpopular. The people at the front of the bus pay your wages, not the oiks in the back. If we cant use our laptops then thats 8 hours on the company payroll wasted. We arent paid to sit on our arse looking out of the window all day - you are. As to the poster, thre removal of batterys appears to be a sdandard component of any operation kneejerk, most recently post 911, both LHR T1 and 3, were removing battteries from phones, laptops et al and placing in checked baggage. They took my battery from my notebook, nut thankfully the monkey screener, did not realise what the empower cable in my bag was for and let that through
Jon (V50) Gar