Flight delays as US steps up search for laptop bombs
TRAVELLERS to the US were today warned of “significant disruption” after security was ramped up for inbound flights.
Travellers to the US were warned over "significant disruption" of increased security checks today
Visitors from the UK will endure “unnecessary frustration” because of time-consuming checks on laptops, according to a trade group representing the transatlantic carriers American Airlines and United.
The Department of Homeland Security claimed that the new measures were necessary to prevent terrorists sneaking on bombs disguised as computers.
The new measures will include extra swabbing of laptops and more sniffer dogs, resulting in longer lines at security.
The clampdown will hit 2,100 flights arriving from 100 countries each day, affecting 325,000 passengers.
US security chiefs banned laptops from 10 foreign airports in March – Britain followed suit with a similar ban.
Visitors dealt with "unnecessary frustration” because of time-consuming checks on laptops
They had considered banning laptops and other large electronic devices entirely from US-bound flights, but backtracked after protests from airlines.
Industry body Airlines For America said: “The security directive should have been subject to a greater degree of collaboration to avoid significant operational disruptions and unnecessarily frustrating consequences for the travelling public that appear likely.”
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The security directive should have been subject to a greater degree of collaboration to avoid significant operational disruptions.
Last night America introduced a partial travel ban on visitors from six “majority Muslim” nations.
Visitors from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen will now have to have a “bona fide” relationship with somebody or an institution in the US to be let in.
President Trump has provoked fury for a tweet about Mika Brzezinski, a TV host on MSNBC, recalling when she was “bleeding badly from a facelift”.
The measures will hit 2,100 flights arriving from 100 countries each day, affecting 325,000 visitors
Head of news Mark Kornblau responded: “Never imagined a day when I’d think ‘it is beneath my dignity to respond to the president’.