US may extend laptop ban to UK flights
May 15, 2017, 5:58 pm
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Check the forum for Cairo threads as this has already been covered. I just did CAI-LHR-SJC (on a single PNR) in J and short checked my bag to LHR such that I could have my bag/laptop with me on the plane from LHR-SJC. Worked just fine (although it's always possible you get a checkin agent at Cairo that refuses to do it)
May 16, 2017, 1:49 am
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May 16, 2017, 5:29 am
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Excuse me if I missed this issue in the thread BUT for me a big issue is that my laptop will be stolen from checked bag. I don't use my laptop on the flights but I'll always put all valuables in my carryon so that I can continue to have them in future...so laptop is like jewelry etc. I think lots of people do that. Do we imagine that there will be better security in baggage handling now?
May 16, 2017, 10:44 am
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if true
May 16, 2017, 10:50 am
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I'm sure this has been addressed further back in the thread, and excuse my ignorance, but is checked baggage screening that much more stringent vs. carry-on as to detect undesirable items within a laptop in a suitcase which is going into the hold? (And conversely, is carry-on security that bad as to probably not catch it!)
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May 16, 2017, 10:54 am
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Last week I passed through security in both LHR and OTP. Now, they both meet the minimum EU standard for airport security, but I know which of the two countries I'd trust to detect a problem (not withstanding that EMA failed to spot the toner cartridge bomb in cargo a few years ago, but DXB did).
I wonder if there might yet be a UK exemption - it's certainly in the upper echelons of worldwide security techniques.
EDIT: Sky seems to have changed their headline again ...
May 16, 2017, 11:26 am
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I think the more interesting part of what's currently a very sketchy article is the phrase "certain European countries".
Last week I passed through security in both LHR and OTP. Now, they both meet the minimum EU standard for airport security, but I know which of the two countries I'd trust to detect a problem (not withstanding that EMA failed to spot the toner cartridge bomb in cargo a few years ago, but DXB did).
I wonder if there might yet be a UK exemption - it's certainly in the upper echelons of worldwide security techniques.
EDIT: Sky seems to have changed their headline again ...
Last week I passed through security in both LHR and OTP. Now, they both meet the minimum EU standard for airport security, but I know which of the two countries I'd trust to detect a problem (not withstanding that EMA failed to spot the toner cartridge bomb in cargo a few years ago, but DXB did).
I wonder if there might yet be a UK exemption - it's certainly in the upper echelons of worldwide security techniques.
EDIT: Sky seems to have changed their headline again ...
May 16, 2017, 12:23 pm
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May 16, 2017, 1:04 pm
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May 16, 2017, 3:37 pm
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I'm sure this has been addressed further back in the thread, and excuse my ignorance, but is checked baggage screening that much more stringent vs. carry-on as to detect undesirable items within a laptop in a suitcase which is going into the hold? (And conversely, is carry-on security that bad as to probably not catch it!)
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However, it sounds like the airlines offering gate-checking of laptops completely ruin that argument, since you keep hold of it right up until you get on the plane, and the guy running down the stairs with a suitcase full of laptops presumably doesn't do much x-raying...