03-21-2017, 08:45 PM | #1 |
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Air travel restrictions
It has been announced that on flights to the US or the UK from a number of specified airports electronic devices bigger than mobile phones will be banned in hand luggage and must be checked in. This is going to be maddening for a lot of businessmen who seem to work non-stop on laptops and tablets. But for an oldie like me it would be disastrous. I have become accustomed to travelling with a kindle with a few hundred books on it. I long ago got rid of my dead-tree books. I don't know how I would survive.
I don't at the moment travel from most of the named airports, but I wonder if it will soon be like the ban on liquids and become general. It looks as though the measurements are designed to exclude kindles. Are there slightly smaller e-readers that would still be OK? |
03-21-2017, 08:58 PM | #2 |
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A link please?
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03-21-2017, 09:38 PM | #3 |
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And what happens when the baggage handlers or warehouse staff start stealing those corporate laptops?! Our corporate policy is to never check laptops to protect against loss of confidential information.
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U.S., Britain Restrict Electronics On Flights From Mideast Countries
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In the myriad of news articles talking about it I haven't seen a link to the US policy, nor on the TSA, FAA or Homeland websites. Last edited by AnemicOak; 03-21-2017 at 10:12 PM. |
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03-21-2017, 10:18 PM | #6 |
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[....]There are numerous ways for terrorists to defeat this restriction. In the meantime, innocent passengers are harassed and inconvenienced for no justifiable reason.
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03-22-2017, 03:24 AM | #7 |
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I don't see the sense of it. Electronisc devices need to be taken out of our your luggage when you pass security, why not check each individual device for explosives when you have easy access to it? (they already did that with my devices, as having 2 tablets and a tablet-sized ereader is highly suspicious).
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I think that concentrating on flights from specific airports suggests that they think the security checks at those airports are insufficient. Anyone who does a fair bit of international travel will be aware of the differences in security checks.
There's also the question of how much safer, if any, it is to put the devices into checked-in luggage. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-39343971 See the discussion here https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/a...-force-changes |
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Yes, the British don't even trust the American one... (why else were we checked again after just exiting a plane from LAX? We had only seen 1 toilet block between exiting the plane and the security check)
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IIRC it was about 18 months after the restriction on liquids was first imposed that a terrorist trial in the UK showed what had been behind it. I can't find it again, but yesterday when I first saw news about this new restriction I saw a video clip that appeared to show someone going through the security check and then being passed a laptop by another person in the clear airside area. You may remember that in 2015 a Russian flight from Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt crashed in Sinai. Russia and the UK were convinced that it was brought down by a terrorist bomb but Egypt denied it. As a result, all sorts of restrictions were imposed on flights from Egypt, where security was considered to be inadequate. Last edited by issybird; 03-22-2017 at 09:03 AM. Reason: Quoted post edited. |
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I think there are ulterior motives to these restrictions, particularly since they have been secretive in the reasoning. [....]The only thing that gives me pause in that belief is that the U.K. has adopted the same/similar restrictions.
On the other hand I do a good majority of my (inside) reading on my phone a 6" Blu Energy XL these days and use my kindle fire less and less. I still use my K2 while walking outside in the sunlight most days. Last edited by issybird; 03-22-2017 at 08:19 AM. |
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03-22-2017, 08:18 AM | #15 |
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I can't avoid flying. I travel frequently between the UK and Switzerland and less frequently elsewhere. When the Icelandic volcano eruption in 2010 disrupted European air travel I needed to get home to Switzerland so I took a train from St Pancras in London, through the Channel Tunnel and ending up at Gare du Nord in Paris. I then had to travel with luggage to the Gare de Lyon from which I got a train to Lausanne. Apart from the fact that it took many more hours, it would now be an impossible journey for me because of my disability.
The requirement to put liquids in a plastic bag for the security check is common in many countries beside the UK. The USA simply doesn't always apply international regulations. I gave up travelling to the USA some years ago after my husband and I were both separately treated badly by airport security. I don't need to travel there for work reasons any more and so have simply given up recreational travel there. I think, however, that international travel does impose all sorts of onerous conditions and it just depends how strong is one's need for it. I find Australia rather difficult, but I will still go there from time to time because my daughter and her family live there and I want to visit them. In the USA I have only a cousin and a few friends and it's not quite as compulsive as the closer blood ties. |
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