Suvarnabhumi Airport Restricts Carry of Phone Battery Pack

Passengers boarding planes at Survarnabhumi Airport Bangkok are no longer allowed to carry USB battery packs for their cell phones exceeding a certain limits of charging capacity, Raweewan Netarakavesana, director of Suvarnabhumi Airport, said yesterday.

The new regulation imposed for safety reasons will applies on both carry-on and checked luggage. Only two cellphone battery packs, not exceeding 32,000 mAh each, will now be allowed onboard. The ban was decided after several incidents of portable cellphone battery chargers catching fire during flight. 

“Spare phone battery is a dangerous device, if the lithium inside the device is heated, it can ignite.”

For now the new regulation only concerns Suvarnabhumi Airport and not other airports in Thailand.