{"id":145861,"date":"2025-11-21T04:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T04:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/145861\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T04:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T04:55:10","slug":"jetstar-flights-to-ban-use-of-portable-power-banks-on-all-flights-air-new-zealand-looking-into-it-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/145861\/","title":{"rendered":"Jetstar flights to ban use of portable power banks on all flights, Air New Zealand looking into it"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cDue to the growing use of portable power banks by travellers and the safety risks of damaged or defective lithium battery-powered devices, the changes follow an internal safety review,\u201d a release from Qantas Group said.<\/p>\n

Passengers on Jetstar flights would only be allowed to take up to two power banks with them in cabin baggage. Power banks would continue to be prohibited from checked baggage.<\/p>\n

Power banks, spare batteries and personal electronic devices needed to be with the passenger or within easy reach.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt needs to be within easy reach during a flight to ensure in the rare event of an issue crew can respond quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Air New Zealand<\/a> said the airline was looking into the matter, and an update for Air NZ customers would be available next week.<\/p>\n

The moves come amid growing concerns about the safety risks posed by lithium battery-powered devices.<\/p>\n

International bans on power banks<\/p>\n

Multiple international airlines<\/a> including Singapore Airlines, Thai Airways, South Korean Airlines and China Airlines banned the use of power banks on flights earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Airlines have been making the changes as extra preventive measures around fire hazards.<\/p>\n

Power banks used lithium-ion batteries, which were known to be highly flammable and difficult to extinguish.<\/p>\n

Since 2016, the International Civil Aviation Organisation, the United Nations agency that coordinates aviation regulations across the world, has banned lithium-ion batteries of any kind from the cargo holds of passenger planes.<\/p>\n

– RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cDue to the growing use of portable power banks by travellers and the safety risks of damaged or…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[68,5263,1060,1396,25021,6562,296,702,15398,19133,25020,117,111,43,139,69,1118,90,23384,10112,61,6306,80],"class_list":["post-145861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-air","tag-all","tag-ban","tag-banks","tag-earley","tag-flights","tag-into","tag-it","tag-jetstar","tag-looking","tag-melanie","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-on","tag-portable","tag-power","tag-to","tag-use","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}