[ale] OT: Planes and Li-Ion batteries

[transam at VerySecureLinux.com (Bob Toxen)]

Last October, nobody cared in Atlanta, London, or Tel Aviv, all
"heightened security" airports.  Call your airline for the latest
scoop on such a routine question but I doubt the rules have changed.
There certainly would be no logical reason for it.

If they really are worried that the extra battery actually has C4 then
I would expect that your offering to power up the Laptop from it should
be sufficient.  (Of course they no longer require one to power up a
Laptop so ...)

Bob

On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:40:31AM -0400, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> I'm flying to Seattle Sunday and it is a 5.5 hour trip.  I want to take
> an extra laptop battery so my laptop will last most the trip.  I thought
> I read somewhere that this is no longer allowed.  Anyone know the
> details?