I have a total of 3 laptops and 2 tablets to take in my carry on and/or laptop bag.  One laptop is my work laptop. The second laptop is personal which is 3 years old. The third one is also personal but it is damaged very badly with taping all over. It is more than 5 years old, and looks in bad condition.  The 2 tablets are each worth $50 each and are new.  How should I carry these? Will I have a problem taking all of these on the plane?
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I am planning to travel to India (COK airport, Kerala) from United States. I want to take my laptop as well as my tablet (iPad). Am I allowed to take both in my backpack with my documents related my work. I think I am allowed to take only one computer as per the rule. Will the customs consider my iPad as a computer?  What all I can take?   One of my friends took 2 laptops (1 work and 1 personal) and had trouble at the airport.  Also I am planning to take some wristwatches (7 of them, each avg price is 45 $). I read in a website that I can take stuff up to max 35000 INR. Is that true? In that case, how will I manage my stuff?
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I'm worried as it's my first trip on my own. All my flights are American Airlines and I have connections at Raleigh/Durham and at Chicago O'Hare, however there are no terminal changes, just connection times of under 2 hours, so will my luggage be automatically transferred plane to plane? or will I need to re-check them?
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I'm a software developer and I need multiple different mobile devices for testing and debugging purposes. I also work on-the-go sometimes, so this is important. Furthermore, not everything can be tested on an emulator, so actual hardware devices are needed in certain cases.  So, is there any limit on how many phones one can carry on an airplane in their cabin baggage? Will I successfully go through security and customs with, say, five phones, a tablet, and a laptop? They're all different and not new. Does that depend on my origin and/or destination airport/country? Will I be required to prove somehow that I actually need these, and if yes, how?
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I am going to the US in the coming week. However, I heard that laptop and camera are not permitted to bring on board as carry-on. What are the latest rules about these larger electronics?
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I want to do laptop maintenance and looking to ground myself with an anti-static wrist strap.   How, or where, do I ground myself to the laptop? Where can I find a grounding point in order to not make a mistake and spoil something?
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I am not one for buying things in airports but recently my wife asked me to get her an alcoholic beverage while flying from the USA to Ireland (JFK-DUB). I made the purchase in JFK and was surprised to be told I had to collect it when departing for my flight as I board the plane. The sales assistant's English wasn't their best so I may have misheard and my Yorkshire twang may have thrown her, but I was somewhat surprised as to why I couldn't carry the bag myself to the plane.  Is there a law that prevents me from carrying my purchase to the plane or is this an added service I was charged, which I was duped into paying?  When boarding the plane there were several others who had to pick up their sealed duty free bags (why sealed?) so it wasn't just me. No explanation was given.
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I am travelling from the US to India on Lufthansa. I have five spare Lithium-ion batteries, each 850mAh.  Can I bring them back safely?
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During my upcoming holiday to the USA I'm thinking about buying a new guitar as the exchange rate is extremely favorable. Excuse my naivety but I have never flown with a guitar before. What is a recommended way to go about this? Could I take it as carry on luggage or would it have to be checked? If checked luggage what kind of precautions should I take to keep it safe? Are there any problems with flying US budget carriers? If I do buy the guitar I'm expecting to have to make two flights with it, one domestic flight with Virgin America and an international flight with Air NZ.
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Some flights prohibit laptops in the cabin.  Under such circumstances, can one gate check the laptop?  The risk of loss should be lower compared to regular checked luggage, and perhaps the traveller is not (otherwise) checking luggage at all.
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I understand that if my luggage does not make a transfer on a plane, the company will deliver it to me. However what if:   I am far away from the airport? Will they still send me the luggage? I am in a different country? Say I booked a cheap flight followed by a bus to save money. Or I flew with two companies with two transfers and the luggage did not make a transfer between flights of one company. The trip was short and I have already returned by the time the luggage arrived at the destination.   How will I get the luggage in these scenarios?
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Probably, another debatable question from my side.  When carrying items while riding, like water bottle, repair kits, pumps, or other stuffs that you might need, What is the best option.... to carry them?   On your cycle at saddle bag, handlebar bags, or pannier bags or etc.  or, On backpacks, like hydrant pack, or simple travel pack.   While loading on cycle, it will increase the weight of the bike, thus affect a lot of things, like speed, traction, more reactive on corners. Like while using pannier bags.. it will increase rear weight, making it difficult on uphill.   Also while loading on backpack, it will tire you down fast if its a big load, decreases your flexibility, agility &amp; etc.  So what is right way to do it?  Update:  The type of ride I generally, go to are commuting, mountain biking, &amp; trailing. And the items I generally carry are   Commuting: Water bottle(x2), Laptop (17"), books, copies, repair kits, hand pump, few other accessories. Mountain Biking &amp; Trailing: Water bottle(x2), repair kits, extra tubes, hand pumps, candybars &amp; few other accessories
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I have just dropped a half full latté on my company laptop and am not sure what to do.  Is there a way I can make sure that my laptop is usable again?  What steps must I go through to improve it's chances of survival?
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Recently bought a new laptop with an extended warranty. Wondering if when a laptop needs to be sent in to the manufacturer for a repair (specifically a hardware repair),  is it ok to remove the hard drive when sending it in?  I don't want to risk my data (security) while in transit and out of my hands.  Nor do I want to delete sensitive files and restore them when my laptop is restored.  I guess this would make it tougher to troubleshoot issues and repair the laptop. I don't know what else I could do.
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According to some reports, your electronic devices are checked whether they turn on before you can get on a US bound flight. What if I carry around a laptop without a battery?
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As I will be travelling to the US in July, I was thinking of buying two graphics cards (R9 390X) over there and bring them back to Switzerland, as computer components are mostly a bit cheaper over there.  I know that the US has some really high security standards regarding international flights. If I take these two GPU's in my carry-on luggage (so they don't break), how would a security officer at LAX react when they see those Graphics cards? I do realise that most people don't actually know what a GPU is or how it looks like. So I am concerned that a security officer might take them from me at an airport when trying to board an international flight.  Believe it or not, I read some really strange stories in forums from people that claim the security officer did not know what a GPU is and thought it might be some sort of a bomb.  Note: By "GPU" I am referring to the whole graphics card (with circuit board, coolers, etc.) and not just the processing unit.
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I ride regularly in the city with my a few valuables with me. My purse, phone, keys, company ID card etc. I hate having a bag on me while ride so I am looking for a solution to have these few items in a bike bag, but also have them safe if I stop somewhere to run into  a shop or a cafe for 15 minutes.   My original idea was to look for a small saddle or top tube bag that is lockable and also safely locked to the frame, and I can simply leave it there. As it turns out there is no such thing! Or I just did not find it?  My second idea was to search for a similar bag, but which is easily detachable and I can take it with myself as a waist bag for example. Same story, I couldn't find anything like this on the market.  Do you know any bag that could work for me? Or do you have an alternate suggestion for my conundrum?   Thank you very much if you take the time to answer! Ride safe! János
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If I have bought 3 tickets for the same flight, can I bring three times the cabin allowance allowed per ticket?  The way I see it I am doing the airline a favor  Related: