bornish
lvl.3
Flight distance : 91447 ft
United Arab Emirates
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Ken,
FAA rules do not apply in all airports in the world.
Moreover, I had shown to both airline staff and airport security the official document from the airline's website. The clueless airline staff talked to their supervisor for almost 1 hour until they realized I was right about those being their current standing rules. Yet, the airport security refused to release them based on the fact that were unable to understand the category in which each battery falls under.
Problem is, a passenger has less an less rights while travelling.
Do you have any idea how many vaporizers (wrongly called "electronic cigarettes") are being confiscated from people's luggage? Unless you have the extremely small, pen type ones, there's a high chance to have them confiscated in many airports around the world, and in the best scenario they will only confiscate the component of the device that contains the battery, but still rendering the unit unusable since you can't really purchase only that component later. What's the logic of this when in the same bag you have a huge laptop using a LiPo battery of a much higher capacity?
I don't see a near future in which these problems will disappear... instead will become more annoying for sure. At least we should share these with fellow owners in the community so they can take the extra precautions and maybe avoid loosing their goods. I would rather leave my equipment at home instead of loosing it on the way.
Regards,
Bogdan |
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