EgyptAir Chairman Safwat Musallam said on Tuesday that a three-month-old ban on taking electronic devices such as laptops into aircraft cabins on flights from Egypt to the U.S. will be lifted today. "The ban on taking laptops and other electronic devices aboard aircraft cabins on EgyptAir flights to New York will be lifted as of tomorrow and for a year or until another emergency amendment is introduced," Musallam said. But, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesman, David Lapan, said Tuesday it planned to review requests by Egypt, along with Saudi Arabia, Morocco, to have the restrictions lifted and it will confirm the removal of restrictions for EgyptAir after it verified the airline’s security procedures in the coming weeks. Carrier EgyptAir is the only Egyptian airline that flies to the U.S., operating flights between Cairo and New York. On 25 March, the U.S. banned electronic devices larger than a mobile phone from cabins on direct flights to the U.S. from 10 airports in the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey. Other airlines in Turkey, the UAE, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and Morocco announced in recent days that bans on their flights were lifted or in the process of being lifted. A similar ban on flights to London was still in effect, Musallam added.