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Originally Posted by The Others
I see that BA have recently relaxed the rules introduced after the attempted liquid explosives plot; laptops are now allowed ont he plane, as long as they are removed from their baggage and X-rayed seperatly.
I've had this happen to mine before, and it was no trouble. Of course, they always make me take my belt off as well, then rush you through they quee. I have been left holding my laptop, the bag it used to be in, my belt and my trousers up as I've tried to clear the line in airports before.
My DV camera has never been an issue; it's pretty small and just goes into my hand luggage. The thousands of cables I have for everything get packed into the hold - I'm not going to need endless USB and firewire cables on the flight, so I forget about them until I unpack.
Next time I'll brush up on current flying regulations before posting my mouth off.
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Hey, no problem. It's changing daily anyway. The US has been separating laptops from the bag since 9/11. When leaving the UK earlier this summer, I was surpised that they did not require it.
On my outgoing flight to DefCon, the woman running the TSA X-ray machine bitched about the amount of electronics in my carry on bags. When I said she could had hand search it, she got even bitchier, said that it wasn't needed, just that I was making her job harder.