Electronic ban on Turkish Airlines US flights has ended

The electronic ban concerning electronic devices that was implemented on US arrival flights since March 25 has ended effective from July 19. Turkish Airlines passengers traveling to New York John F. Kennedy International Airport from İstanbul Atatürk Airport carried their electronic devices on the 6:45 a.m. flight number TK-3 from July 19. After lifting the ban on this first flight, Chairman of the Board and the Executive Committee of Turkish Airlines M. İlker Aycı said; ‘‘During 102 days, 81.736 electronic devices were carefully collected from our passengers at gates by our staff and carried in overprotected baggage on 1,087 flights to the US.75% of devices were laptops and tablets and 25%were cameras, GPS devices and Kindles. I would like to express my gratitude to all my colleagues who carried out this operation with a sense of mission and sensibility”.