Lap top and tablet ban
So I plan a trip of 3 or 4 days, and can fit all my clothing and other stuff into an old laptop bag, goes between my calves and my seat while everyone else is wielding possibly heavy mid-size cases into the overhead lockers. No laptop in it though, just a 7 or 8 inch tablet. The tablet has to come out and go in the hold. On its own in a tiny cardboard box it would be vulnerable to damage or theft, so does it need a suitcase mostly full of packing? Surely it is more convenient for everyone to inspect it on check-in, which was already happening, I assumed, and then stay with the hand luggage. Even in the hold it should still be checked, so no saving of work, just a pointless and inefficient (for me and the airport and the airline) increase in baggage volume.
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This is not a genuine security issue; it's an economic war by the US on companies with which it can't compete because it's services is so woeful. Rather than up their game, they again unlevel the playing field. Chapter 11, fifth freedoms and now this. Trump is as bent as a three dollar note and he has cowed to the US3 without upsetting Boeing. Otherwise, why would all US operators flying from those nations on the list be exempt from the rule?
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It amuses me with all the conspiracy theorists and anti-Trumpers that are willing to sacrifice thousands of lives for their beliefs(actually, they disgust me).
It is obvious that the much-maligned raid that happened in Yemen(authorized by that terrible person) actually did reveal some hugely important information which will save a lot of lives, possibly including yours. There is a plot to attack multiple airliners in one day and kill thousands. There is precedent for a plot like this in the past if you Google search and there is a deep desire to pull it off.
The weaponry has been created as seen by the Daallo airlines attack in which a computer made it through security.
The several countries, all in one easy to guess region, have had infiltrators slowly make their way into becoming security scanners and are ready to let the bombs go through despite being detected in a coordinated manner on the same day.
Obviously, the names of the compromised screeners are unknown but their locations are known, so only a blanket ban can be made. The detection systems that are used for baggage and the manner in which they are used are considered to be more reliable than the individual security persons who have now been sidelined in terms of this particular plot which has been years in the making.
But don't worry, an individual airliner will be brought down as a back-up plan at some point by one of those insiders, just like the Russian airliner in Egypt. Although that was a maintenance guy as the insider.
I guess these airlines are victims of their own people. Kind of like we are becoming.
It is called putting 1+1+1 together.
It is obvious that the much-maligned raid that happened in Yemen(authorized by that terrible person) actually did reveal some hugely important information which will save a lot of lives, possibly including yours. There is a plot to attack multiple airliners in one day and kill thousands. There is precedent for a plot like this in the past if you Google search and there is a deep desire to pull it off.
The weaponry has been created as seen by the Daallo airlines attack in which a computer made it through security.
The several countries, all in one easy to guess region, have had infiltrators slowly make their way into becoming security scanners and are ready to let the bombs go through despite being detected in a coordinated manner on the same day.
Obviously, the names of the compromised screeners are unknown but their locations are known, so only a blanket ban can be made. The detection systems that are used for baggage and the manner in which they are used are considered to be more reliable than the individual security persons who have now been sidelined in terms of this particular plot which has been years in the making.
But don't worry, an individual airliner will be brought down as a back-up plan at some point by one of those insiders, just like the Russian airliner in Egypt. Although that was a maintenance guy as the insider.
I guess these airlines are victims of their own people. Kind of like we are becoming.
It is called putting 1+1+1 together.
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surely it is more convenient for everyone to inspect it on check-in
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Sure, but in my example the tablet will presumably be screened whichever piece of luggage it ends up in. If someone who hoped to travel with just a single smaller than average piece of hand luggage ends up having to take an extra item just to put a tablet in on its own that isn't really helping anyone, including the security staff.
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"In a cabin, a relative small device can make a hole in the side of the plane and crash the plane; in the hold it's much less likely and the pilot has a good chance of getting the plane down on the ground".
Doh ...
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This is not a genuine security issue; it's an economic war by the US on companies with which it can't compete because it's services is so woeful. Rather than up their game, they again unlevel the playing field. Chapter 11, fifth freedoms and now this. Trump is as bent as a three dollar note and he has cowed to the US3 without upsetting Boeing. Otherwise, why would all US operators flying from those nations on the list be exempt from the rule?
Your shrill little anti-American anti-Trump rant is embarrassing.
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For the conspiracy theorists, why part you and your laptop, forget bombs.
if your laptop is in baggage, it gives the "right"ppl a couple of hours to access and scrutinise your laptop and copy data, don't rely on the case being locked argument, and of course if it is interesting it may end up being "stolen".
if your laptop is in baggage, it gives the "right"ppl a couple of hours to access and scrutinise your laptop and copy data, don't rely on the case being locked argument, and of course if it is interesting it may end up being "stolen".
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It looks like SriLankan (a direct flight) will be getting all my regular LHR-CMB business rather than SriLankan or Qatar based on my mental "reasonable price & reasonable timing" algorithm as historically.
bricks that the ME3 will show them up on their home turf for what they are. Of course its an economic attack - the USG is simply protecting its home market and avoiding even more US citizens seeing how good the ME3 are, how bad the US carriers are and by how much the US guys are ripping them off. Trump has learned from his crude attempt on immigration to come up with a plausible excuse first, and then prevent the competition from entering the USA.
The whole argument about hold vs cabin is fatuous. If someone is going to mount an attack, they will simply come from another location which is not on the list.
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If someone is going to mount an attack, they will simply come from another location which is not on the list.
airports where they have agents working in security
If this is indeed the threat, then we need to shut down flights originating from the compromised airports completely. And then work with the local officials to plug security holes.
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going on in France and Europe or anywhere in the world right now, that they aren't just as susceptible as Dubai?It's pretty naive as there are probably more radical terrorist in Paris or Detroit as in UAE.
Given that BA have spent the last few years heavily promoting "hand baggage only" fares, it would have been good if, instead of the bland standard sentences they put in their statement of today about this, there was some information about how people who already have such tickets are to handle it. The last thing we want is for commercial departments to make a revenue opportunity out of this.
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IATA-WAS has just circulated the following 'clarification'
Several IATA member airlines have reported being told that the new security directive on large electronic devices also applies to devices (including electronic flight bags) carried by airline flight and cabin crew members. We have been in contact with both the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Transportation Security Administration headquarters in Washington, DC and have been told specifically that the new directive does not apply to flight and cabin crew devices.