Emirates and Turkish Airlines Say Laptop Ban Is Lifted on Their U.S. Flights
“Effective immediately, the electronics ban has been lifted for Emirates’ flights from Dubai International Airport to the U. S.A.,” Emirates said in a statement, adding
that it had been working with the local authorities to put in place new security guidelines for all flights to the United States.
A spokesman for the T. S.A.
confirmed that Emirates had met the requirements for lifting the ban on its flights to the United States from Dubai International
Airport, while Turkish Airlines received permission to lift it on flights from Ataturk Airport in Istanbul.
The original ban on devices applied to direct flights to the United States from 10 cities in eight countries: Amman, Jordan; Cairo; Istanbul; Jidda
and Riyadh in Saudi Arabia; Kuwait City; Casablanca, Morocco; Doha, Qatar; and Dubai and Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates.
The announcements from Emirates, which is based in Dubai, and Turkish Airlines, based in Istanbul, came after the Transportation Security Administration said on Sunday
that Etihad Airlines had been approved after introducing more rigorous screening procedures at its base, Abu Dhabi International Airport.
By DAN BILEFSKYJULY 5, 2017
Emirates and Turkish Airlines said on Wednesday that they were the latest carriers to have been exempted from an American ban on laptops
and other electronic devices in the passenger cabins of flights from eight predominantly Muslim countries.