CANCÚN, Mexico: Top airline industry players are meeting on Monday and Tuesday in Cancun to seek alternatives to the US and British bans on laptops and tablets on certain flights, which they say is hurting business. The computer bans are looming large over the agenda as the International Air Transport Association (IATA) holds its annual meeting in the Mexican resort city. Alternative proposals include sniffer dogs, bomb-detection technology, increased training — anything but the ban, which IATA says is threatening the industry just as it was enjoying a boom. With fuel prices low and 3.8 billion passengers flying last year — a figure that is expected to double in the next 20 years — “the industry is doing quite well,” said IATA’s director general, Alexandre de Juniache. “Airlines are in the black and it’s the eighth year in a row,” he told journalists during a conference call ahead of the meeting. — AFP
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