Typical!! Just as I’m about to venture onto a 9 hr flight, with my only saving grace being the iPad’s my kids will have surgically attached to them…
The US has announced a ban on electronic devices from cabin baggage on flights from mainly Middle Eastern and North African countries. Officials said extremists were planning to bring down passenger jets with bombs. News about this begun to trickle out on 20th March but at the moment it only appears to affect some carriers flying from a dozen or so countries.
These fresh restrictions which do not have an end date affect laptops, tablets, cameras, DVD players, and game players. Large electronic devices will only be allowed on board in checked baggage. Phones are exempt from the new rules.
The impacted countries and airlines are (but expect this list to grow):
| The airports affected are: | The nine airlines are: |
| Queen Alia International, Amman, Jordan Cairo International Airport, Egypt Ataturk Airport, Istanbul, Turkey King Abdulaziz International, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia King Khalid International, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Kuwait International Airport Mohammed V International, Casablanca, Morocco Hamad International, Doha, Qatar Dubai International, United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi International, United Arab Emirates |
Royal Jordanian Egypt Air Turkish Airlines Saudi Arabian Airlines Kuwait Airways Royal Air Maroc Qatar Airways Emirates Etihad Airways |
Update: The UK now plans to ban electronic devices for passengers flying to the UK from certain countries.
So for now calm has once again been restored to the Drury household phew…but I might still tell the kids they can’t just for a laugh!
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