Starting May 28, Southwest Airlines mandates visible portable chargers during flights to enhance safety, addressing risks of thermal runaway in lithium-ion batteries.

Southwest Airlines had fewest complaints as airline grievances hit record high 00:24. Passengers on Southwest Airlines flights will soon be required to keep their portable chargers in plain sight ...

Nation & World News; Southwest Airlines will require chargers be visible during use because of fire concerns. Published: ; May. 20, 2025, 9:39 p.m.

UL Standards & Engagement, part of a safety-science company once known as Underwriters Laboratories, said it based its findings on data from 35 passenger and cargo airlines, including nine of the ...

Southwest said that requiring these chargers to be kept out in the open when they are being used will help because “in the rare event a lithium battery overheats or catches fire, quick access is ...

Passengers on Southwest Airlines flights will soon be required to keep their portable chargers in plain sight while using them because of concerns about ... 37 passenger and cargo airlines, ...

Passengers on Southwest Airlines flights will soon be required to keep their portable chargers out and in plain sight. By Josh Funk | Associated Press • Published May 20, 2025 • Updated on May ...

Passengers on Southwest Airlines flights will soon be required to keep their portable chargers in plain sight while using them because of concerns about the growing number of lithium battery fires ...

Southwest Airlines to require chargers be kept out while in use because of battery fire concerns Ryan Munoz, a flight attendant with Southwest Airlines, poses in the airline's newly designed ...