Airline lobby group claims a laptop ban would cost $1B

I suppose this implies that the introduction of laptops over the course of the last 25 years or so resulted in $655M in productivity gains…?

[quote]$195M for renting airline-supplied devices to use while your laptop is in the cargo hold[/quote]Well, that money wouldn’t really be “lost”; it would be paid into the hands of the airline, who would no doubt pass these savings on to the consumer oh ha ha no.

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