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Laptop Ban May Expand to Flights Coming to U.S. From Europe
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Last time I'll visit the US if this will happen.
Can't imagine how many laptops will get stolen from luggage.
Can't imagine how many laptops will get stolen from luggage.
Maybe for some but not for most of my colleagues if we needed to use expensive software that needs licences. but even that increases costs & makes transatlantic more expensive/less attractive.....
4 more years of this idiocracy. This administration is a complete joke. Can't believe Americans elected Trump. Sad.
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No laptops, then no tablet, no phones, no watches, no shoes, etc...
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It's still a mystery how it happened. In the middle of all this madness I might as well run with scissors.
If this is like the current ban then anything larger than a phone will be banned - no tablets, games consoles or laptops.
What are those baggage scanners not picking up? You already have to get your laptops out for separate screening (and tablet/Kindle in UK airports) so what is the point if the scanners can't detect this. I wouldn't be surprised if this gets expanded all international departures - after all would a terrorist with this technology not simply adjust their route to arrive in the US from East Asia or Australia?
This is going to annoy a lot of people who fly with hand luggage only!
What are those baggage scanners not picking up? You already have to get your laptops out for separate screening (and tablet/Kindle in UK airports) so what is the point if the scanners can't detect this. I wouldn't be surprised if this gets expanded all international departures - after all would a terrorist with this technology not simply adjust their route to arrive in the US from East Asia or Australia?
This is going to annoy a lot of people who fly with hand luggage only!
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Try using a paperback book. They are still manufactured in large numbers and available in many outlets.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_planes_bomb_plot
As someone who worked on the tarmac at an airport. I can tell you first hand how idiotic this is when workers with access to aircraft can exit and return to secure areas without being checked.
I have literally driven from home to the airport. walked onto the tarmac and go right into the cargo hold of a plane without being checked.
I have literally driven from home to the airport. walked onto the tarmac and go right into the cargo hold of a plane without being checked.
We already have a bikini airline.
Do you believe in strict gun control? People in the US are way more at risk than most Europeans due to the lack of gun control and the constant mass murders that result. If France "wasn't cautious enough", what is the US? Criminally negligent?
I think the real issue is that lots of laptops will be stolen. I would never put something that valuable in my checked luggage.
That, and safety. Expect a small increase in cabin fires as a result of storing all those lithium ion batteries...
Ridiculous.
And there are plenty of muslims working on airports, at least in Europe.
Gosh, I sure hope not.. My flight to Dubai in November and back is going to be very long....I had a connecting flight in Switz I thought would prevent this from being a issue.
What does that have to do with anything?
This has ZERO to do with bombs.
Its all about money. Business / first class passengers will choose an (american) airline that does allow them to work on their laptop while on the plane. This is simply a way of forcing high profit passengers off non-american airlines.
No, they are seeing ways to introduce intrusive government control everywhere. Once you check your laptop do you not think for one moment that they (TSA/FBI/NSA/etc) couldn't look at every single device? I see this as nothing more than a way to separate you from your electronics so the government can spy on people.
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Hey, he feels safe in the "Dutch mountains" get off his back. So what if a few hundred people here and there get murdered as long as we dont' have to do without a laptop for a few hours. Everyone knows the security folks don't care about our security, they just want to inconvenience folks for the fun of it. Heaven forbid we have to use in flight entertainment, cell phones, tablets, etc., books, movies, etc. Oh the inhumanity of it all!
I would expect the European authorities to extend the ban to ALL airlines on these routes.
Another reason for the paranoid to call on, as justification for such measures (blaming the Europeans for cultural laxity); at lest this is what I assume your post has argued.
I assumed that it was an ironic reference to the sort of psychotic mindset in parts of the US - to my Transatlantic Cousins - a gentle reminder: More people been killed annually - by far - by the easy availably of guns in your society - those alienated lunatics who can't handle rejection, or some other issue - than have ever been killed by terrorists.
Actually, I think this argument makes a lot of sense.
Profit and preferential trading conditions and arrangements disguised as security precautions.
And I own lots of them. All electronic... and stored on my iPad. I still prefer physical books but when traveling long-term I can easily go through 2 novels a week. Try carrying those with you for a few years and you'll see the value of switching to eBooks.