I don’t think it’s about the batteries. It seems like they’re worried you could empty out your laptop and fit a bomb in the cavity. If anything it sounds like they’d prefer it if you took your batteries in carry on (in case they rupture or explode) but stow the rest of the laptop in your checked bag.
When you fly in other countries, they make you take out your laptop and electronics and put them in a separate tray to go through the X-ray. I guess this is to help them see all the other shit in your bag that would otherwise be obscured by all the details in a circuit board, but I can’t help noticing that you can see pretty well into the laptop itself and you’d definitely see if somebody had taken out the insides and replaced them with a wad of explosives.
So my question is, for anyone here who might have the authority to answer: Is this bullshit? This is some bullshit, right?
