European Security Officials Confirm The US Will Announce Electronics Ban On Thursday

The funny thing about this discussed ban is that people are, for a good reason, afraid of their electronic stuff like laptops and cameras to be stolen from check in luggage. And that is the truly week link in air travel security. If airlines and airports can not prevent the common theft from passengers luggage, how can they prevent the dishonest staff to put a bomb in a suitcase if they want to? This is where the future danger is, not in the laptops or electronics of the passengers. This idea of electronics ban in cabin luggage is not addressing this large security breach in the air travel.

STOP blaming the airlines people. It's the Trump Regime that is demanding this...NOT the airlines. Comparing this to carrier imposed fees is ridiculous. BLAME THE US GOV'T.....that is who is responsible.

@robbo - give myself an upper-cut, really? I think you just proved my point about what a comment section on an article like this does to Lucky's readers, unless you are always that incredibly immature and ignorant and waiting for the right times to show it off? Turning off comments on certain articles does not stifle debate because you cannot state that this comment section is a debate, at least not a proper one, because no one on here has complete information on which to base their arguments and more importantly, no one on here has any decision making authority whatsoever over the implementation of this ban. All this is is a place to vent and whine (not saying this complaints are not legitimate) and eventually degrade into disrespectful arguments among people that think they know everything and therefore their opinion should be dispositive to our national security decisions, and further lead to partisan accusations like the one you made because for some reason every single thing that happens in this world today must become about right vs. left (I am actually surprised people have not figured out a way to politicize the Coke vs. Pepsi debate). I made a mere suggestion to Lucky - this is his website and he is free to take or leave any advice his readers offer him. If he does not think it would be good to shut down comments and that these comments are actually beneficial to his page, then by all means I encourage him to leave them open. He has that right, just like you have the right to be an internet comment section hero acting big and tough behind a keyboard if that is what you feel is beneficial to yourself. Oh, and for what it is worth, MAGA you ignorant asshole. Good thing internet comment section heroes don't need to back up their "guarantees". Carry on dude...

how much extra would it add to a flight from Europe to land in Gander (YQX) and put everybody through security there ... before flying on to the US ?

@Kevin - Thanks for bringing that up! The key takeaway I had in that case was that an *insider* provided the laptop/bomb to the attacker *after* he had cleared security. It did not go through the standard screening process. Presumably, if you are actually scanning those laptops (and the TSA, for its part, does make you pull them out), you'd still see the bomb material inside, even if it otherwise worked as expected. What needs to be locked down are the insider threats. With as many people working in aviation as there are, that will be a challenge, but at least it can be overcome...