The US Transportation Security Administration is lifting a ban on passengers on Saudi Arabian Airlines carrying large electronics such as laptops (the PEDs ban) on direct US-bound flights - it is the last carrier to be cleared.

In March, US officials banned passengers carrying laptops and other large electronic gear in cabins on nine mainly Middle East airlines to cut the potential threat from hidden explosives. The other airlines/airports have already been okayed to carry PEDs.

 

The US government now has lifted the restrictions at Saudi Arabian Airlines' main hub in Jeddah at King Abdulaziz International Airport and Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport probably will be okayed later this week.