“I just don’t know where they’re coming from in the risk assessment of something as small as an iPad,” Roth said. “It ain’t going to do much.”
U.S. airlines are resigned that a broadened ban on electronics will occur at some point, one industry official told Bloomberg News on Friday. The person wasn’t authorized to speak about the airlines’ talks with government and asked not to be identified.
Yet if airports see operational chaos, passengers shriek on both continents, and airlines suffer huge costs—especially during the peak summer travel season—it’s unclear whether such a ban would endure.
“My opinion is [DHS] may pull the trigger and make it happen but it won’t last for more than a week,” Roth said. The reason? “Blowback.”
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