Filed under: Laptops, Transportation

Virgin Atlantic has altered its sweeping policy of banning all Inspiron, Latitude, iBook, PowerBook, MacBook and MacBook Pro batteries from its flights, saying “If the battery is identified as being from the affected batch as identified by Apple and Dell, the battery must be removed. In cabins where the seats are fitted with In Seat Power Supplies, leads/adapters will be offered. Where no ISPS is provided or no laptop leads/adapters are available, the use of these affected laptops is prohibited.” No word yet on whether Qantas or Korean Air has gotten the memo that it doesn’t need to forbid every Dell laptop under the sun on their flights as well. But we’ve yet to hear of airlines banning Panasonic, Toshiba, and IBM laptops — something that may be coming sooner than you think, if someone doesn’t figure out pretty fast what the devil is going on.

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Filed under: Laptops

So it would seem that Korean Air has forbidden all Dell laptops and Apple‘s PowerBook and iBook models from its flights due to the risk that those computers’ batteries might explode, reports The Korea Times. The newspaper also reported that Australian airline Qantas made a similar ban last month for the same reasons. Naturally, the longer it takes Sony, the batteries’ manufacturer, to sort through this exploding battery fiasco, the harder and harder its going to be to get your Dell or Apple on a plane, but we know the pressure’s on. Sony company has already faced the wrath of the Japanese Ministry of Trade, and the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, and apparently the US Federal Aviation Administration is also looking into the problem as well. Damn, it’s hard out there for Sony — maybe it’d do well to quell everyone’s fears by giving out some free PS3s for awhile, whattayasay?

[Via ThinkSecret]

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