BA Handling of laptop/tablet ban
Dec 28, 2017, 12:30 pm
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What's the latest on how this works at IST? I'm flying on RJ from AMM to IST and then connecting onto BA's LHR service. Aside from my regular briefcase, I don't have a separate bag for my laptop. Would I just gate check it at IST? What do they do if you don't have a separate bag for it?
Dec 28, 2017, 3:24 pm
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What's the latest on how this works at IST? I'm flying on RJ from AMM to IST and then connecting onto BA's LHR service. Aside from my regular briefcase, I don't have a separate bag for my laptop. Would I just gate check it at IST? What do they do if you don't have a separate bag for it?
Yes you can gate check a carry on, but they don't encourage this, so I would double check at the desk to be on the safe side.
If if you don't have a separate bag I would suppose they will offer the choice of leaving it. They don't have a bag for you to put it in like TK did.
Dec 29, 2017, 3:01 am
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That's good to know - thanks. I think I'll put my laptop in my checked luggage at AMM and cross my fingers that the bag is transferred correctly at IST and turns up at LHR!
Dec 29, 2017, 8:59 am
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Interestingly, Lebanon's national carrier now allows laptops and larger electronics into the cabin:
https://www.mea.com.lb/english/about...es/uk-ban-lift
Yet BA still maintains its ban, and the Government website still states that the ban is in place.
I flew from Beirut to London on the 16th of November with BA, and each and every carry-on bag was searched at the gate. Surely it would be less onerous for BA to follow suit and do random checks?
https://www.mea.com.lb/english/about...es/uk-ban-lift
Yet BA still maintains its ban, and the Government website still states that the ban is in place.
I flew from Beirut to London on the 16th of November with BA, and each and every carry-on bag was searched at the gate. Surely it would be less onerous for BA to follow suit and do random checks?
Good luck with BA under Cruz paying for anything.
Dec 29, 2017, 9:00 am
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To be fair, security screen at RUH T1 is pretty lax. Tends to be a comedy of errors if you're going out when PIA/PAL or Lanka have departures scheduled...
Jan 19, 2018, 11:23 am
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No BA response so far for CAI flights
Since I haven't heard anything about the lifting of the ban on BA flights out of CAI following the ban being lifted on Egypt Air, I wrote to the department of transport and in their response it said
"The Government continues to work closely with all carriers to achieve a full lift at each affected airport as soon as possible. In order to lift the ban, airlines are first required to implement enhanced security measures. However, airlines may still choose to retain the ban for operational reasons which is a matter for individual airlines provided they meet security requirements".
So BA can't keep saying that it is the DOT's fault. Another "enhancement" by Cruz!!!!
"The Government continues to work closely with all carriers to achieve a full lift at each affected airport as soon as possible. In order to lift the ban, airlines are first required to implement enhanced security measures. However, airlines may still choose to retain the ban for operational reasons which is a matter for individual airlines provided they meet security requirements".
So BA can't keep saying that it is the DOT's fault. Another "enhancement" by Cruz!!!!
Jan 21, 2018, 12:03 pm
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Jan 21, 2018, 12:31 pm
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Definitely still in place and enforced in all locations mentioned upthread.
Jan 21, 2018, 1:17 pm
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One way around this is to not fly direct back from IST.
LHR-IST-xxx-LHR will do the trick. I’ve seen One way fares with LOT from £80. I’d imagine there are OneWorld options available too, although for those that also have Star Gold status, the TK lounge is light years ahead of the overcrowded room that BA use as a lounge.
LHR-IST-xxx-LHR will do the trick. I’ve seen One way fares with LOT from £80. I’d imagine there are OneWorld options available too, although for those that also have Star Gold status, the TK lounge is light years ahead of the overcrowded room that BA use as a lounge.
Jan 21, 2018, 3:03 pm
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especially since BA is basically the only major airline not to meet the new standards; all the local airlines (ME, RJ etc) have all long since enabled their customers to get on with their usual travel lives.
Jan 21, 2018, 3:09 pm
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Jan 21, 2018, 3:25 pm
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Jan 21, 2018, 4:24 pm
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I think it’s a matter of investing in new or more (or both) screening equipment. Why this should be the airline’s problem and not the government’s or the airport’s, I don’t know. But in any case the other airlines have done what it takes and BA hasn’t, and, by the looks of it, it won’t. As a result, BA passengers from those airports are compelled to check in bags if they want to take anything more than a phone with them, which is absurd. (Personally, I doubt security as such is at stake, and I’d certainly not feel more secure with lots of extra lithium-ion batteries arbitrarily forced into the hold: it’s just one more of these things that governments do to make us feel—or to look as though they make us feel—more “secure”).