U.K passengers could be banned from carrying laptops on U.S bound flights

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Reports coming out today that U.K passengers might soon not be bring anything larger than a mobile phone onboard U.S bound flights. The U.S government is considering extending the electronics travel ban the to U.K and Europe. Under the ban, all items larger than a mobile phone would have to be checked in. The travel ban brought in for the Middle East earlier this year received a lot of backlashes and if it was extended to the U.K and Europe you would have a lot of unhappy Trans-Atlantic customers

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Okay, this got to be a joke. What are the government thinking?! One thing is the 7 countries, I can live with that (But not really), But I’m pretty sure this will make Americas tourism go down - I can’t survive 8 hours on a plane without my computer, not because I’m addicted to it, but because I can actually do something on it.

I really hope this is a joke, Please let it be a joke…

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By the way, do you have any other articles? I don’t read The Sun.

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Daily Mail any better?

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Yes, Thank you! I just don’t read The Sun.

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Well if laptops from the UK will be banned, why not every other country?

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This is it, I am moving to Canada. My new username will be VancouverHockey.

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Don’t get discourage guys. That’s not how the US government works. Trump can’t just order to many laptops from UK flights.

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As interesting as this conversation will probably get, please avoid getting political (not the place for it).

Also, this topic I fear is going to veer into non aviation related issues, such as terrorism and security, which isn’t appropriate for the forum.

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Yes he can… he can definitely ban laptops through border security.

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It already has and those comments have been deleted, so we don’t need to bring the subject up any more.

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What I don’t get about this is, they’re implying that Gameboys and iPods are more dangerous than iPhone 7s.

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And also, they’re encouraging you to check in your lithium-ion batteries, which totally can’t bring a plane down if something goes wrong, right? ;)

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Oh please, not again! I’m sure these would make travelling into U.S even harder as I’m sure there will be more countries to be included on this list. I know it’s for safety purpose but why should they have take this measure? I meant someone can even threaten to blow up an aircraft with an iPhone (Egyptair Hijacking).

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I think there must of been a big security threat found by the agencies. The nz government are even proposing to add these rules on flights to Qatar and Dubai

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I don’t know whether to get to involved in this as I probably will never fly to the U.K. or Europe but this still seems just a wee bit silly.

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Maybe instead of ‘Vancouver hockey’ ‘VN_HOCKEY’??

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Anything would work, lol

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I have the feeling one day I’ll be controlling and I’ll just hear an aircraft calling in with the call sign *Victor November Hotel Oscar Charlie Kilo Echo Yankee"

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Lol that would ironic!