But it is understood that during a four-hour meeting between EU and US officials on Wednesday, there was no talk of applying the so-called “laptop ban” to flights from Europe. While the EU delegation were not given a guarantee that a laptop ban would not be imposed, there is greater confidence in Brussels that it is unlikely to happen in the near future. Pushed as to whether the laptop ban had been dropped, the European commission’s chief spokesman, Margaritis Schinas, declined to offer any cast-iron assurances during his daily press conference in Brussels, saying: “No ban on electronic devices was announced. The UK issued a similar ban on flights from six countries. A second meeting will be held between senior EU and US officials in Washington next week, officials said.

Source: The Guardian May 18, 2017 10:30 UTC