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Emirates and Turkish Airlines Say Laptop Ban Is Lifted on Their U.S. Flights

2017-07-06 6 Dailymotion

Emirates and Turkish Airlines Say Laptop Ban Is Lifted on Their U.S. Flights<br />“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<br />that it had been working with the local authorities to put in place new security guidelines for all flights to the United States.<br />A spokesman for the T. S.A.<br />confirmed that Emirates had met the requirements for lifting the ban on its flights to the United States from Dubai International<br />Airport, while Turkish Airlines received permission to lift it on flights from Ataturk Airport in Istanbul.<br />The original ban on devices applied to direct flights to the United States from 10 cities in eight countries: Amman, Jordan; Cairo; Istanbul; Jidda<br />and Riyadh in Saudi Arabia; Kuwait City; Casablanca, Morocco; Doha, Qatar; and Dubai and Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates.<br />The announcements from Emirates, which is based in Dubai, and Turkish Airlines, based in Istanbul, came after the Transportation Security Administration said on Sunday<br />that Etihad Airlines had been approved after introducing more rigorous screening procedures at its base, Abu Dhabi International Airport.<br />By DAN BILEFSKYJULY 5, 2017<br />Emirates and Turkish Airlines said on Wednesday that they were the latest carriers to have been exempted from an American ban on laptops<br />and other electronic devices in the passenger cabins of flights from eight predominantly Muslim countries.

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