The United States will lift the in-cabin ban on laptops and other large electronic devices on US-bound flights from EgyptAir to New York starting July 12, EgyptAir Chairman Safwat Musallam said on Tuesday. A similar ban on flights to London is still in effect, he added. The US government enforced the electronics ban earlier in March, preventing passengers on incoming flights from majority-Muslim nations in the Middle East and North Africa from carrying laptops and large electronic devices onto planes. The US has lifted restrictions on large electronics in cabins on six of the airlines after they adopted stricter screenings for explosives and other enhanced measures. The ban was dropped Sunday for the airlines Royal Jordanian Airways, Kuwait Airways.

Source: Egypt Independent July 12, 2017 12:56 UTC