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US Lifts Laptop Restriction For Flights From Abu Dhabi (reuters.com)
The United States has lifted a ban on laptops in cabins on flights from Abu Dhabi to the United States, saying Etihad Airways had put in place required tighter security measures. From a report: Etihad welcomed the decision on Sunday and credited a facility at Abu Dhabi International Airport where passengers clear U.S. immigration before they land in the United States for "superior security advantages" that had allowed it to satisfy U.S. requirements. Transportation Security Administration officials have checked that the measures had been implemented correctly, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). U.S. officials assessed the airport on Saturday night, Abdul Majeed al-Khoori, acting chief executive of operator Abu Dhabi Airports told Reuters on Monday. The disruption to passengers from the new measures will be "very minimal" with the processing time for those traveling to the United States unchanged, he said by phone.
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I cancelled my vacation to the US this fall, after they wanted to ban electronics as carry on. No way I am putting my expensive cameras and computer in checked. I hadn't booked a flight yet but I had rented a house, so there was minimal damage done.
Maybe next year? I hope.
Etihad released a statement immediately following this announcement saying that lodging for all corporate travel will now be at Trump branded properties.
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>implying the DHS or the TSA have ever prevented a hostile take down of an airplane.
This whole laptop ban thing was a front to get countries to accept the remote American security points in their airports. If you don't - laptop ban. If you do - no laptop ban.
In general, using the remote ones (I've the one on Canada) is much better than going the passport and security points at international arrivals in an American airport. So that's a marginal improvement. But best of all would be having passport and security controls that didn't suck.
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Pretty much most of the educated world.
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Television channels in Dubai don't broadcast episodes of The Flintstones but those in Abu Dhabi do.
"Black people on busses scare me"
That's what you sound like. Like a child who has never left his precious sanctuary. Anything different scares you. You are a god damned coward. The fact that you cower at arabs is sickening. Stop being a pussy and scared of the people the media tells you to be scared of.
You know what scares me? Privileged white men in our government.
Fucking scared little shit. Grow up and grow a pair of balls.
Why would anyone want to sit next to a stinky coon? Send them back to Africa. Arabs on the other hand, you have to, if not be scared, at least be aware of them. You are their enemy...