Turkish airlines offer laptops to passengers on board UK, US flights

Turkish Airlines has provided a resolution for passengers from Nigeria and other countries who have been inconvenienced by the ban of electronic devices on United Kingdom and United States-bound flights by the state authorities, by providing laptops on board air crafts on that route.

 According to the airline, state of the art laptops would be made available for use on board to passengers on business class.

 In a statement, the airline said; “as an airline that flies to most countries of the world, Turkish Airlines continues to develop new solutions for its passengers with respect to the electronics ban, applied on US and UK-bound flights.

 “The national flag carrier has now started to offer laptops for its business class passengers of U.S. bound flights. It will also launch the same practice for its U.K. bound business class passengers from 12th May, 2017,” the statement read.

 In effect, the service, which is yet another innovation from Turkish Airlines for its U.S. and U.K. bound flights, will be accessible to Nigerian passengers and other nationalities that will now be able to uninterruptedly work on laptops above the clouds, while also experiencing the Planet, seamless in-flight entertainment system of Turkish Airlines.

“Within the context of this new practice, those passengers who deliver their personal laptops to the authorized TK staff before their flight can request a laptop from the cabin crew in order to follow their business or personal processes on-board during the flight.

   “Those laptops, that have the feature of being a tablet after being folded and as well as a touch screen property, will be offered through a high security system which protect the personal information/works of the passengers by automatically and permanently deleting them all from the system when the notebook computer is shut down,” the airline said.

However, “those passengers, who wish to make a copy from those personal works to an USB memory stick, can easily do that,” it concluded.

 Jumoke Akiyode