CX / CPA airline policy
Cathay Pacific power-bank flight policy.
Carrier-specific policy evidence for CertiWatt verdicts. This page exposes the policy URL, active rule IDs, citation freshness, and update fields used before a model-route verdict is returned.
- Carrier country
- Hong Kong SAR
- Policy confidence
- Official source
- Tracked rules
- 1
- Latest evidence
- May 1, 2026
Short answer
Power banks must travel in cabin baggage; Cathay applies a 2-unit limit and requires approval for 100-160 Wh lithium batteries.
Policy source
- Official URL
- cathaypacific.com
- April 2026 policy signal
- Recorded
- Last checked
- May 1, 2026
- Effective from
- Apr 15, 2026
- Ruleset
- 2026-05-15
Verdict impact
- Airline rules are evaluated with the model capacity and exact route, not as a standalone approval.
- Citations remain visible on verdict pages so travelers and agents can inspect the policy evidence.
- Final airport acceptance still rests with airline and security staff.
Policy source monitor
Source health is derived from the registered ingest source, latest probe result, and stored content baseline.
- Source ID
- airline-cx
- Cadence
- daily
- Last ingest
- May 30, 2026
- Content status
- verified
- Policy URL
- cathaypacific.com
- Baseline
- 5204877160
- Current fingerprint
- 5204877160
Declared key rules
- cx.policy.2026.batteries.100-160wh.approval
- cx.policy.2026.max-2-banks
Policy summary
Traveler-facing policy fields
Power banks must travel in cabin baggage; Cathay applies a 2-unit limit and requires approval for 100-160 Wh lithium batteries.
Source quality
Official sourcePolicy fields are backed by a direct airline source or airline-specific citation.
- Citations
- 1
- Latest pull
- May 1, 2026
- Last checked
- May 1, 2026
- Effective from
- Apr 15, 2026
- Carry-on
- Allowed when within capacity and quantity limits.
- Checked baggage
- Not permitted.
- Watt-hour limit
- Up to 100 Wh allowed; 100-160 Wh requires airline approval; over 160 Wh banned.
- Approval required
- Required for 100-160 Wh lithium batteries.
- Quantity limit
- Maximum 2 power banks per passenger.
- Inflight use
- Follow cabin crew instructions; keep accessible.
- Recall handling
- Active affected recalled units are banned when serial/model evidence matches.
- Spare power banks
- Carry-on only.
Policy rules in the current engine
cx.policy.2026.batteries.100-160wh.approvalprecedence 60capacity threshold
capacity_thresholdCXeffective Apr 15, 2026
Citations and source quality
- Official policy page
- cathaypacific.com
- Source count
- 1
- Source mix
- 1 airline
- Confidence
- Official source
- Latest pulled_at
- May 1, 2026
- Policy last checked
- May 1, 2026
- [01]Cathay Pacificairlinecathaypacific.com
pulled_at May 1, 2026
Policy change log
Change history
Added explicit 2-unit and 100-160 Wh approval handling to the airline policy model.
- Current
- 2 units maximum; 100-160 Wh requires operator approval.
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