The U.S. government is temporarily barring passengers on certain nonstop U.S.-bound flights from eight Middle Eastern and North African countries from bringing laptops, iPads, cameras and some other electronics in carry-on luggage starting Tuesday. Royal Jordanian said the electronics ban affects its flights to New York, Chicago, Detroit and Montreal. "There would be a huge disadvantage to having everyone put their electronics in checked baggage," said Price, a professor at Metropolitan State University of Denver. Most major airports in the United States have a computer tomography or CT scanner for checked baggage, which creates a detailed picture of a bag's contents. All checked baggage must be screened for explosives.

Source: CBC News March 20, 2017 22:53 UTC