Silly question, or not.

Is it possible to air travel with laptop batteries?

Own a 10YO Toshiba laptop (Vista class)that I`m not likely to be able to replace any time soon. Done my best to keep it running and replaced HD for SSD.

Have seen replacement batteries for $20 or so on eBay/Amazon and eventually would love to ask someone to bring me a couple of batteries if the deed will not land this person in the no-fly list or worse.

Can it be done or better not ask?

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Yes. There are size & quantity limits.
Some allowed only in carry-on bags.

https://www.faa.gov/about/offi...rs_and_batteries.pdf

most airlines have gone to 'carry on only' with lithium batteries. Even if you gate-check, you're supposed to take anything with a lithium-ion battery on board with you.

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Originally posted by snidera:
most airlines have gone to 'carry on only' with lithium batteries. Even if you gate-check, you're supposed to take anything with a lithium-ion battery on board with you.

This.

I would check limits on size and weight before they travel if you talking about more then one or two batteries.

TSA story here. A few years ago I was coming back from a dive trip and had packed my canister dive light in my carry-on. After the x-ray, they pulled me aside and went through my bag. Pulled out the light and looked at the canister that holds the batteries. Asked how to open it. I told them it was sealed and showed them the two connectors for the light head. The guy said the batteries inside looked like bullets. I've traveled with this light many times and this was the only time I heard that. Glad they didn't decide to "open it" which would have destroyed it.

If it's for a laptop, one could carry on a battery for it. If it's two batteries, it might raise a question especially if there's no laptop.

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Originally posted by Rey HRH:
If it's for a laptop, one could carry on a battery for it. If it's two batteries, it might raise a question especially if there's no laptop.

I would expect "what are these for?" (Personally: I wouldn't do it.)

Why not just ask someone to buy you a pair, ship them, and pay what will almost certainly be a trivial import duty?

Have you opened up your laptop battery to take a look? You can probably find some unprotected lithium cells that would fit inside... 18650's are very commonly used inside laptop battery packs.

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:


Why not just ask someone to buy you a pair, ship them, and pay what will almost certainly be a trivial import duty?

Regardless of the 100% duty on what Customs decides is the value of an item, they mandatory add a customs officer (private) to the equation who also adds a fee for his/hers troubles which then is added to the guesstimated value of the goods before taxes.
That is not all, you might be required to pick said item at the airport -even if it was shipped- and that might add 4 to 6 ours travel and waiting to your shopping expedition.

I stopped buying this way ages ago when they wanted to charge me $500 for some Norton/Symantec free unsolicited upgrade I received.
I've got close to 20 years of working with and for international customs and never understood how they get away with this racket.
If that wasn't enough, shipping carriers and private/public mail services are masters at misplacing, losing, misappropriating others people's property.
Insurance? We don't need no stinking insurance!!!

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I can see why you’d want to carry the item. For the time my daughter lived in Argentina, every single package we sent her was opened and pilfered of any valuables. To get her a pair of shoes, we had to mail one each in different parcels.

However, the Arginetines would leave the peanut butter alone.