Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker : Electronics Ban 'Not Necessary' Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker is calling out the decision to ban carry-on electronics on flights from the Middle East. It was " not necessary to frighten passengers ," said Al Baker in a broadcast interview with CNN Money. " People who want to disrupt aviation will do it from other places where there is no ban ,” Al Baker is further questioning where the pursuit of security will end. " If [you] continues this way, at the end of the day you will have people sitting in the airplane with underwear and nothing [else] on them," he said. “In today's day and age, we have so much advancement and detection systems, that we should utilize them and not shoot from the hip .” In the interview, conducted by CNN Money ’s Emerging Markets Editor John Defterios , Al Baker also admits that Qatar Airways has seen a decline in passengers to the United States since the ban, but he call...