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No you're not check your camera equipment because airlines don't cover electronics under the plane if they're lost or damaged.

• ams6110 8y ago
  And these days they prohibit checked batteries.
  • manquer 8y ago
    After the Samsung note glitch I can see where they are coming from...
  • logifail 8y ago
    How is this prohibition supposed to be enforced? I've recent experience of flying with checked luggage which contained multiple AA NiMH rechargable batteries, spare camera batteries, and on one occasion even a fully-charged 16000 mAh power bank.
    • zaarn 8y ago
      XRay Machine, usually.
      • logifail 8y ago
        Are we saying that when the hold baggage is screened then just because of a stray battery or power pack they're going to ... do what, exactly? Not carry that bag on your flight and leave the airline scrambling to reunite passenger with luggage? Page the passenger (who is almost certainly airside by that point) and try to get them to come (where?) to repack/deal with the contents? I've never heard of a facility where an airside passenger can temporarily get access to hold baggage once it's been screened. Wouldn't the passenger and the hold bag each have to go back through the relevant screening channel after this interaction? I've checked batteries dozens of times and never give it a second thought. As it turns out, I had two sets of brand-new NiMH AAs in my checked luggage this morning.
        • munin 8y ago
          If they wanted to, once detecting a battery, they could: 1. Open the luggage themselves 2. Remove the item containing the battery 3. Replace it with a note saying that the item was removed 4. Close the luggage back up 5. Put the luggage back on the plane 6. Discard the item What are you going to do, sue them? Post bad things about them on social media?
          • logifail 8y ago
            "If they wanted to" shouldn't really be part of any sane security policy. If 'X' is genuinely dangerous, then always deal with X as if it were actually dangerous[1]; if X is however not dangerous, stop pretending. [1] for instance the policy of confiscating >100ml bottles of liquid at airport security "because reasons" then have agents simply stuff these dangerous liquids into one large bin and leave them there at the screening point for hours.
            • munin 8y ago
              That's not really what I meant. What I meant was, you seem to act as if enforcement of this policy would require a lot of logistical work on the part of the airline to ensure that the passenger wasn't separated from their bags, or that they were compensated for whatever they had to ditch due to security. However, that is not actually the policy or law they have to follow, and they are free to do arbitrary things. This makes enforcement much easier. Whether or not that is "sane" or "right" or "wrong" isn't material to my counter-point.
              • logifail 8y ago
                I'm not convinced that airlines want to get into the business of arbitrary confiscation of non-compliant items from hold baggage especially if it's to be carried out when the passenger isn't present.
        • zaarn 8y ago
          >Are we saying that when the hold baggage is screened then just because of a stray battery or power pack they're going to ... do what, exactly? Not only for stray batteries, it's screened for all kinds of things, including drugs, bombs and other non-allowed items or dangerous stuff. To my knowledge, if they do find something, you'll have some security guards come up to you and escort you to a separate section of the airport where you will be unpacking your luggage and remove the offending item, then repackage and you can go on (or not if the offense is too great to ignore).
  • gambiting 8y ago
    That's not true, as long as the battery is installed inside the device. You only can't check in spare batteries - they have to go in your hand luggage.
• knorker 8y ago
  That's one reason, yes. I don't know why you started your sentence with "no"