UA / UAL airline policy
United Airlines 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
- United States
- Policy confidence
- Official source
- Tracked rules
- 0
- Latest evidence
- Not recorded
Short answer
United is tracked from its official dangerous-items page; US departures also apply TSA/FAA carry-on-only handling for spare lithium batteries and power banks.
Policy source
- Official URL
- united.com
- April 2026 policy signal
- Not recorded
- Last checked
- May 31, 2026
- Effective from
- Not recorded
- 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
- untracked
- Cadence
- Not registered
- Last ingest
- Not recorded
- Content status
- untracked
- Policy URL
- united.com
- Baseline
- missing
- Current fingerprint
- missing
No ingestion source is registered for this airline policy.
Policy summary
Traveler-facing policy fields
United is tracked from its official dangerous-items page; US departures also apply TSA/FAA carry-on-only handling for spare lithium batteries and power banks.
Source quality
Official sourcePolicy fields are backed by a direct airline source or airline-specific citation.
- Citations
- 0
- Latest pull
- Not recorded
- Last checked
- May 31, 2026
- Effective from
- Not recorded
- Carry-on
- Allowed when within capacity, label, and recall rules.
- Checked baggage
- Not allowed for spare lithium batteries and power banks.
- Watt-hour limit
- Baseline model: up to 100 Wh normally allowed; over 160 Wh banned on passenger aircraft.
- Approval required
- Operator approval may be required for batteries above 100 Wh and up to 160 Wh where accepted.
- Quantity limit
- No United-specific power-bank quantity rule is active in the current ruleset.
- Inflight use
- Follow crew instructions and keep the unit accessible.
- Recall handling
- Active affected recalled units are banned when serial/model evidence matches.
- Spare power banks
- Carry-on only under the US/TSA baseline and United dangerous-items policy context.
Policy rules in the current engine
No active airline-specific rule is currently published for this carrier. CertiWatt still uses the global and route-country battery rules when verifying a trip.
Citations and source quality
- Official policy page
- united.com
- Source count
- 0
- Source mix
- No citations recorded
- Confidence
- Official source
- Latest pulled_at
- Not recorded
- Policy last checked
- May 31, 2026
Policy change log
Change history
Normalized United policy fields from the official dangerous-items source into the airline policy database.
- Current
- Official source tracked; US/TSA baseline fields exposed on the airline hub.
Verify a model on United Airlines
Run a trip-specific check with a catalog model or manual battery entry. The final verdict combines this airline record with route-country rules, recall status, and capacity evidence.
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