The US electronics banhas been in place for over a weeknow, and it has been interesting to see how airlines are dealing with it. Emirates, Etihad, and Turkish have all shared what theyre doing to try and minimize the impactthis ban has on passengers.
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Does anyone have a view on how this affects the ME3 strategy for Europe? If they see lower demand for US travel will they start competing more aggressively for passengers traveling to / from Europe? Would we see better and more deals for premium cabin travel in Europe?
AS just announced service between PDX and DTW and JFK. As well as new LAX to PHL service.
Please report ASAP once you know what type of laptop QR will be supplying. I have a number of DOH>US flights booked and I'm trying to figure out a USB-based strategy for continuing my photo editing on that sector. 😐
LOL well we knew it was a matter of time before Emirates followed suit. Anyway you are quite correct companies tend not to permit confidential work being done on public machines and hell my last company even prohibited work being done in public spaces to include on an aircraft. I tend to fly for leisure more so than business anyway, so this will be perfect for me, if they have Kindle preinstalled, I can at least access my library. I'll just be sure to change my password, not that I care if the world know what I like to read. Even with this Emirates will probably have to cut their prices on business.
If not, there's still my plan to go to the US via Rio on Emirates.
@Dale I read that too and thought that part about having confidence in US airports was ironic considering by the TSA's own audit they miss 97% of attempted contraband smuggling.
What Hans said about Qatar. Also may I assume the laptop will have Word already installed? Or how does this work? I have Photoshop, I doubt all those laptops come loaded with Photoshop but at least I could do preliminary photo edits, the deleting of those pix that are not going to be usable..
As a publisher, I also read a lot of stuff in mobi. Does anyone know if these devices will come preloaded with the Kindle app. Because it's going to be a major pain if I have to go back to reading in PDF... in fact, much of what I read will not even be available in PDF.
Right now I'm thinking just to quit traveling altogether because it seems too impractical & too much time lost away from my tools.
It sounds like outbound (for now) I can have my own laptop and ereader, but coming back, I have to check mine (which means significant risk of loss or theft flying into a higher crime airport MSY with a past history of theft from luggage) so I have to risk losing the ereader altogether, pack my cheapest laptop, pull the card before I pack it, and... is that seriously what we're going to have to do?