Without wishing to beat a dead horse, the ban officially expires on October 14th but may be extended.
I don’t recall similar expiration dates on any of the other post 9-11 security measures but if anyone knows better, please let me know. As it is, this looks like a direct way of applying negotiating leverage against the airlines in question:
“Oh, is this hurting your profits? All you have to do is agree to the demands we failed to secure a month ago and we’ll end this in October. I mean, we could just carry it on indefinitely, it makes no difference to us…”
