CPAP Batteries/Flying restrictions

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Sonja

CPAP Batteries/Flying restrictions

Post by Sonja » Mon Sep 25, 2017 6:56 pm

I am flying Air Maroc and TAP (Portugal). Does anyone know if there are restrictions for CPAP batteries? Mine is FAA approved, but I cannot find info online regarding policies for lithium ion batteries for these two airlines. Thanks

Pap-Daddy

Re: CPAP Batteries/Flying restrictions

Post by Pap-Daddy » Mon Sep 25, 2017 8:42 pm

Sonja wrote:I am flying Air Maroc and TAP (Portugal). Does anyone know if there are restrictions for CPAP batteries? Mine is FAA approved, but I cannot find info online regarding policies for lithium ion batteries for these two airlines. Thanks
Is there not a link or a phone number you can contact those carriers directly to ask them? That will be your most accurate source of info.

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Re: CPAP Batteries/Flying restrictions

Post by amenite » Tue Sep 26, 2017 4:10 pm

Sonja wrote:I am flying Air Maroc and TAP (Portugal). Does anyone know if there are restrictions for CPAP batteries? Mine is FAA approved, but I cannot find info online regarding policies for lithium ion batteries for these two airlines. Thanks
Seems like they're not keeping it secret or anything, see below. Generally Lithium batteries up to 100 Watt Hours you're OK to carry on. 101-160 Watt Hours you'll need to know what each airline allows. Uninstalled spare batteries you usually have to carry on. Baggage with up to 160 WH batteries installed in a device I think you can usually check. But anything over 100 WH you better know the airline's policies.

https://www.royalairmaroc.com/us-en/con ... 20Safe.pdf
https://www.flytap.com/en-gb/baggage/sp ... /batteries