Emirates Airline and Turkish Airlines have joined Etihad Airways among the growing list of carriers exempt from the ban on large electronic devices in the cabins of airplanes arriving in the U.S. from several Middle Eastern and North African countries. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Wednesday lifted the restrictions on Emirates and Turkish after the airlines complied with certain unnamed security measures at their airports, a week after DHS instituted “enhanced” protocols including increased scrutiny of laptop computers at screening points at some 280 airports in 105 countries. The DHS notified Etihad Airways of its exemption on July 2, following what the airline called the successful validation of security measures at the U.S. Preclearance facility at Abu Dhabi International Airport earlier in the day. All Etihad Airways passengers traveling to the U.S. clear immigration and customs at the U.S. preclearance facility in Terminal 3 at Abu Dhabi International Airport.
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