New Electronics Travel Ban Enacted for Carry-On Luggage

[zzzSnorlax]

Originally Posted by Nor Cal Wahine

I'm curious if the responders here bothered to read up on the new rule? It's been put into effect only for persons traveling on foreign carriers, and is due to intelligence agencies' belief that terrorist networks are creating explosives out of laptops. If you are traveling on an American carrier it doesn't apply. I assume that's because American carriers don't fly to America nonstop on those routes. Great Britain has also put these new conditions into rule.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile....cabin.amp.html

There might be a very valid reason for this drastic measure. I'd rather lose the use of my laptop then throw caution to the wind and just hope for the best. As someone who flies transoceanic routes on occasion I can certainly understand the extreme inconvenience of this, but to go off on a half-cocked conspiracy rant as if a civilian knows more than joint intelligence commissions is pretty lame.

Again once the bomb is on the plane they could just dial into it with their cell phone? How does this stop anything?

[ATX Wahine]

Originally Posted by zzzSnorlax

Again once the bomb is on the plane they could just dial into it with their cell phone? How does this stop anything?

I can't answer that. I'm neither a member of the intelligence committee nor did I stay at a Holiday Inn last night.

I can think of several work-arounds myself, but assume that the people who get paid to do this stuff already have, too. It's certainly a curiousity - one that I'll wait for more info on before declaring a conspiracy.