Restricted entry: Keep tabs on devices or people?

In-flight electronics ban poses questions without offering answers

AS ROYAL Jordanian’s surprise tweet about a cabin ban on electronic items on flights to the US from 21 March 2017 sank in, travellers and airlines scrambled to assess the impact of the action messily and mysteriously orchestrated by the Trump administration, eventually encompassing up to a dozen airlines from eight largely Muslim Middle Eastern countries. Britain responded in kind with restrictions imposed on six countries – Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia, Turkey, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia – affecting in all, 15 airlines.
 
US airlines have not been affected by the restrictions.
 
While the US ban also covers Dubai, Doha,