Do airlines really check whether battery packs for laptop/phone/tablets are less than 100 or 160 Wh?

Do airlines really check whether battery packs for laptop/phone/tablets are less than 100 or 160 Wh?

6/16/2018 1:02:18 AM

Since you mention specifically South Korea, I just (2018/6/16) went through security at ICN, terminal 1. Here’s what happened:

  1. Check-in staff asked me whether I had batteries in my check-in luggage. Nope.
  2. Trust but verify: I had to wait 5 minutes after check-in near the counters while my luggage was x-rayed.
  3. I went through security. Staff opened my bag and visually inspected, among other things, my 16,000-mAh power bank. Which ain’t that big.
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So the answer is your power bank will be inspected in Korea, but by airport security rather than the airline.

6/15/2018 2:26:45 PM

In China, they are super strict about batteries and yes they read. I haven’t seen that much in the US, they seem to not be as strict.

6/17/2015 2:09:15 AM

No, they don’t. Security looks for weapons and bombs; if it’s not either, they’re not interested. Of course, there’s always the off chance that you’ll run into some particularly zealous and clued-in inspector with a fetish for lithium batteries, but realistically I wouldn’t worry about it.

Also, 90% of the regulation you link to is about transporting lithium batteries in bulk as cargo, which they are concerned about since there have been high-profile accidents link to lithium battery fires in the cargo hold.

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