Qatar Airlines Gets Out from Under U.S. Laptop Ban

Two Airbus A350 and A380 are pictured at the Airbus delivery site on Sept. 25, 2015 in Blagnac, before their delivery to Qatar. (REMY GABALDA/AFP/Getty Images)

A terminal in Hamad International Airport (HIA) on April 30, 2014 in Doha, Qatar. (Karim Jaafar/AFP/Getty Images)

Qatar Airlines is looking to expand in the United States, the company added in the announcement of its electronics ban being lifted.

Not only by adding San Francisco to its list of destinations in 2018, but it hopes to buy a 4.75 percent stake in American Airlines as an initial investment.

American Airlines CEO Doug Parker, has said he is not excited about the state-run airline’s planned investment, and that he would advise the American Airlines board not to approve it, according to Reuters.