{"id":120092,"date":"2017-07-05T11:36:24","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T11:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=120092"},"modified":"2017-07-05T11:36:24","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T11:36:24","slug":"now-emirates-says-us-has-exempted-it-from-laptop-ban-in-flight-cabins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/now-emirates-says-us-has-exempted-it-from-laptop-ban-in-flight-cabins\/","title":{"rendered":"Now, Emirates says US has exempted it from laptop ban in flight cabins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai-based Emirates airlines says the US has exempted it from a ban on laptops in airplane cabins.<\/p>\n<p>The Middle East&#8217;s biggest long-haul carrier said in a statement on Wednesday that new security measures were in place and the ban had been lifted &#8220;effectively immediately.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>This follows Abu Dhabi-based Etihad being exempted from the ban.<\/p>\n<p>Emirates&#8217; Dubai hub has grown into the world&#8217;s busiest airport for international traffic, in large part thanks to Emirates&#8217; expansion. It was one of 10 airports affected by the ban on cabin electronics put in place by the Trump administration in March.<\/p>\n<p>Istanbul-based Turkish Airlines tweeted early on Wednesday that it had been exempted from the ban. Saudi Arabian Airlines has said it hopes to be off the ban list &#8220;on or before July 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai-based Emirates airlines says the US has exempted it from a ban on laptops in airplane cabins. The Middle East&#8217;s biggest long-haul carrier said in a statement on Wednesday that new security measures were in place and the ban had been lifted &#8220;effectively immediately.&#8221; This follows Abu Dhabi-based Etihad being exempted from the ban. Emirates&#8217; Dubai hub has grown into the world&#8217;s busiest airport for international traffic, in large part thanks to Emirates&#8217; expansion. It was one of 10 airports affected by the ban on cabin electronics put in place by the Trump administration in March. Istanbul-based Turkish Airlines tweeted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}