Fellas:
Two days go the news ran a story on a possibility of not allowing electronics on some international flights. Airports were given 21 days to comply with new security procedures or electronics would (could) be banned. Some sources said banned from carryons in the cabin and others said a total ban.

Any of you gents know of this and has it impacted your Africa travel this summer? I don't use a smart phone but do carry my laptop with me to check email and write of my experiences.

Just wonderin'.
Cal

This ban only applies to travel from and to the US.

The rest of the world is blessfully free and one can carry whatever he wanted as before.

I travel extensively, with a laptop, iPad, iphone, several cameras with no hassle whatsoever.

In the past 3 months I have been to the U.K., CANADA and Europe.

Your best bet is to check with the airlines you will be traveling with, and the d4stinations you are going to travel to.

This should avoid any problems you might encounter.

Yes old news. I just returned on Emirates three weeks ago. At the gate (in Dubai), they take all your electronics (Cameras, Laptops, iPads), except your cell phone, bubble wrap them and place them into box(es), and place two seals on each box in front of you and give you a claim check with the seal numbers. They write down your name, claim check number and seal numbers on a master list. The items are loaded separately into the plane. Upon arrival into the USA in baggage claim there is a table set up where you will retrieve your box(es) after showing your claim check. Then get your luggage. Simple.

This is because the "JV Team" figured out a way to turn a working laptop into a destructive device.

Photos with my ipod 6, pen and paper and paperback books. Just like I did in the past.

Dave

UPDATE:

Abu Dhabi has been removed from the electronics ban list. So if you are flying Etihad, you can bring your laptop and other electronics in the passenger cabin.

That may be because you actually clear US Customs in the Abu Dhabi airport, complete with US Customs officers. You don't have to clear Customs again when you get stateside. When I went through Customs there, I presented my passport and the agent ran it through the scanner. Then he pointed to his computer screen and asked me if the bag shown on the screen riding along the conveyor belt was mine. I told him yes, he stamped my passport, and my Customs clearance into the states was done. And I knew my bag was going to make it home with me!!

In March 2017, the UK announced a cabin luggage ban on laptops and tablets on passenger flights from certain airports, following a similar move in the States.

I just came back to the US on SAA from Jo-burg on 02 July with no problems.

The ban has been removed from Emirates as well. I flew with the ban, wasn't that bad, they collect everyones laptops at the gate and then you collect when you land in the states.