South Africans travelling with Emirates now have a new travel headache.
It’s not your overweight luggage or your oversized carry-ons. Nope. It’s power banks.
According to The South African, the airline has rolled out a fresh ban on the use of power banks mid-flight, effective 1 October 2025.
This ban comes after a scary incident on a Dubai-to-Amsterdam flight where a power bank caught fire.
Yoh! Imagine a Boeing 777 cabin filled with smoke. That’s not exactly the in-flight entertainment you signed up for.
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Van der Merwe is approached by SANRAL one day who want to build a new highway through his donkey farm. Van is really concerned with how his donkeys can get from one side of the farm to the other without having to cross the highway and risk being injured or killed. He is promised that they will build bridges the highway so that his donkeys can cross under the highway. Van agrees and gives them the go-ahead.
The highway is built and a year later the same rep goes to the farm to go see how Van and his donkeys are. He eventually finds Van under one of these bridges chipping away at the roof of the tunnel with a hammer and chisel.
\”Mnr Van de Merwe, what are you doing damaging the highway bridge?\”