{"id":648160,"date":"2025-09-27T12:30:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T07:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=648160"},"modified":"2025-09-27T13:44:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T08:14:12","slug":"southwest-airlines-enforces-new-lithium-battery-rule-for-mobility-devices-heres-how-it-impacts-travelers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/southwest-airlines-enforces-new-lithium-battery-rule-for-mobility-devices-heres-how-it-impacts-travelers\/","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Airlines enforces new lithium battery rule for mobility devices: Here&#8217;s how it impacts travelers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Southwest Airlines has started enforcing a new rule affecting passengers who rely on powered wheelchairs and scooters. Starting from September 25, 2025, travelers with motorized mobility devices that use lithium-ion batteries will be required to remove the batteries before checking in the device. The batteries must then be carried into the cabin, though they will not count toward carry-on or personal item limits, The Street reported.<\/p>\n<p>Dave Hunt, Southwest\u2019s Vice President of Safety and Security, outlined the changes in a memo to employees, later confirmed by a company spokesperson. Hunt wrote, \u201cLithium batteries have become one of the most common sources of smoke and fire incidents on aircraft.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southwest Airlines has started enforcing a new rule affecting passengers who rely on powered wheelchairs and scooters. Starting from September 25, 2025, travelers with motorized mobility devices that use lithium-ion batteries will be required to remove the batteries before checking in the device. The batteries must then be carried into the cabin, though they will not count toward carry-on or personal item limits, The Street reported. Dave Hunt, Southwest\u2019s Vice President of Safety and Security, outlined the changes in a memo to employees, later confirmed by a company spokesperson. Hunt wrote, \u201cLithium batteries have become one of the most common [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}