New Ban to be announced Tues: Forbids any device larger than cellphone on airlines from 13 countries

I used chase reserve points to book the flight. My actual flight is from Houston to Cairo and Amsterdam to Houston. I'm in graduate school and work part time... so i'm unfortunately super broke. Regardless I am going to check out Germany, Greece, Denmark, and Egypt.

Anyways what I meant by making me dread my flights a bit more is they are super long flights and with United.

 

How does having the bomb in the cargo hold make anybody safer?

Al Qaeda hasn't figured out remote detonation yet?

 

Its pretty easy just short the battery it will blow up. Same as all those note phones. At least if its in the cabin you have a chance to put it out. In the cargo bay it will just burn everything up. Lithium fires are very hard to put out.

At some point there is risk in everything. Do you really want to not have your laptop or ipad for the .0001% chance a terrorist will blow up your plane?

 

The article I read implied that anything stored in cargo required a fuse based on time that makes such a device significantly more complicated. I don't recall if the same article addressed the use of a remote to set a device off... but I suspect it would suggest a remote also makes things more complicated.

The same article implied that screening is more intense on items in cargo versus carry-on where there is an imperative to have passengers move quickly through screening.

I also guess based on the size or type of explosion the the cargo area could be safer.

 

It does not.

 

If they knew exactly what to look for, it would make sense. If not, and it's a general laptop as bomb/fire threat... it makes no sense.