Not a chance in hell. You may as well go ahead with that potential outage of Blackberries that the business world was threatened with last year. (Or was that earlier this year? I forget.) Because that had more cred as a possibility then having laptops banned from planes. Keep in mind that we are talking about batteries that weren't in use. So said batteries would have to be banned. Lets see that would also include cell phones, most PDA's with li-ion batteries. iPods. CD-players. What about rechargeable toothbrushes and razors in luggage? In short you may as well close down the airline industry if we are going to start worrying that a battery is just going to spontaneously combust. Now what I could believe would be a compartment that travelers are required to stow any electronic device that has the air pumped out of it making it somewhat fire resistant. But that would cost money and considering the last flight I was on last month pretty much had me stowing my laptop case in the ass crack of the person in front of me I don’t see this as happening.
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John Doe @ Jul 16th 2006 4:12AM
Not a chance in hell. You may as well go ahead with that potential outage of Blackberries that the business world was threatened with last year. (Or was that earlier this year? I forget.) Because that had more cred as a possibility then having laptops banned from planes. Keep in mind that we are talking about batteries that weren't in use. So said batteries would have to be banned. Lets see that would also include cell phones, most PDA's with li-ion batteries. iPods. CD-players. What about rechargeable toothbrushes and razors in luggage? In short you may as well close down the airline industry if we are going to start worrying that a battery is just going to spontaneously combust.
Now what I could believe would be a compartment that travelers are required to stow any electronic device that has the air pumped out of it making it somewhat fire resistant. But that would cost money and considering the last flight I was on last month pretty much had me stowing my laptop case in the ass crack of the person in front of me I don’t see this as happening.