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Re:US forbids any device larger than cellphone on flights fr... by LordWinstanley on Monday March 20, 2017 @06:43PM (#13918293)
Deliberately (?) misleading headline. The devices are not banned from flights. They are banned from being carried as hand luggage
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Re:US forbids any device larger than cellphone on flights fr... by glandium on Monday March 20, 2017 @07:05PM (#13918412)
Would you put your tablet or laptop in the checked luggage, though? When you know how they're handled...
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Re:US forbids any device larger than cellphone on flights fr... by LordWinstanley on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @12:01PM (#13923427)
Whether I would trust baggage handling or not isn't really the point.

Almost every news outlet is headlining this story that these devices are being 'banned' from flights, which is simply not true. They're being 'banned' from being carried on as hand luggage. You might as well say that "changes of clothes" are banned from flights, seeing as most people's suitcases are not allowed to be carried on as hand luggage either.

I know the truth doesn't make for as interesting a headline. But it's irritating to see the [allegedly] quality press increasingly adopting the tactics of the click-bait trash pedlars.

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