The US electronics ban has now been lifted for over half of the airlines that were impacted by it. Over the past week we've seen four airlines have the electronics ban lifted for flights from their respective hubs to the US: -- The electronics ban was lifted for Etihad flights out of Abu Dhabi as…
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@ Ben/Lucky
Kuwait Airways have announced via their twitter channel, that the electronics ban from KWI has been lifted effective July 9.
I don't if it's a coincidence, but today TSA at PDX kept harping on "all electronics *bigger than a cellphone* had to come out of the bag". Never heard that before.
@Randal
That's standard security policy, at least for me when I pass thru major SEA airports like SIN, BKK and HKG (but not CGK or KUL AFAIK). But it's only to be scanned, and can be brought on-board, no?
@Randal,
Hasn't this been the case by default the last few years? "All laptops, tablets, e-readers...must be taken out and put on the tray". By default just about everything bigger than a cellphone. The only new inclusion I would imagine would be cameras.
@AJ, @Ranal,
It seems to be new for the US. I never had to take anything out of my bag at the security checkpoints in the US. However, in Europe it has been standard procedure for a few years now to remove all electronics from your bag. No matter the size and no matter if it is a device, a battery, or just a cable. It has anything to do with electricity? Remove it from your bag.
If this includes books about physics? I don't know 😉
At my home airport RNO, TSA officials direct people to take out laptops etc .... at SJC on our way home several weeks back, TSA officials were instructing people to just leave laptops inside bags.