Re: Virgin Atlantic bans Apple (and Dell) laptops

On 15/9/06 1:16 pm, Jon B wrote:
David Kennedy <davidkennedy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 15/9/06 9:33 am, Paul Russell wrote:
If you want to take a PowerBook, iBook etc on a Virgin Atlantic flight
you now have to remove the battery for the duration of the flight: <http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/09/14/virgin_apple_dell_battery_ban/>.

But, isn't it Sony who make the batteries ?

It is, and the previous recall on the iBook batteries were for the LG
batteries, so are they banning those too?

And Sony laptops ?


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