{"id":5434,"date":"2022-12-19T02:19:19","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T20:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/?p=5434"},"modified":"2022-12-19T02:19:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T20:49:19","slug":"indigo-airlines-classifies-powerbanks-as-dangerous-goods-threatens-potential-prosecution-for-carrying-them-on-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/indigo-airlines-classifies-powerbanks-as-dangerous-goods-threatens-potential-prosecution-for-carrying-them-on-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"IndiGo Airlines classifies powerbanks as Dangerous goods &#038; threatens potential prosecution for carrying them on Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago while I was checking in for my IndiGo flight, I noticed that the airline has a page for &#8220;Dangerous Goods and Restricted Articles&#8221; just like most other airlines have when doing the online check in. What was interesting over here, was the fact that the page lists &#8220;Power Banks&#8221; under this category and states that &#8220;Carrying these objects may be an offense and may result in prosecution&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot_20221210_173031-1024x506.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"506\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot_20221210_173031-1024x506.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot_20221210_173031-300x148.png 300w, https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot_20221210_173031-768x379.png 768w, https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot_20221210_173031.png 1344w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><br \/>\nScreenshot from Indigo website taken 10th Dec 2022<\/center><\/p>\n<p>This makes absolutely no sense as powerbanks are now carried by pretty much everyone and yes while they are not allowed in checked-in luggage anymore, they are still allowed in carry-on luggage. Classifying then alongside weapons and flammable liquid etc doesn&#8217;t make any sense and just gives the airline the option to potentially abuse this classification if required.<\/p>\n<p>I did try reaching out to Indigo over social media about this but didn&#8217;t get any response. <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Suramya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago while I was checking in for my IndiGo flight, I noticed that the airline has a page for &#8220;Dangerous Goods and Restricted Articles&#8221; just like most other airlines have when doing the online check in. What was interesting over here, was the fact that the page lists &#8220;Power Banks&#8221; under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5434"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5437,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5434\/revisions\/5437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}