Travelling to the USA with a laptop that won't hold charge [duplicate]
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I'm doing a round trip between the US and the UK with Delta, and intend to take my laptop. Unfortunately, the battery recently began to stop holding charge: when I plug in the charger and turn on my laptop, it works fine, but as soon as I remove or turn off the charger my laptop shuts down.
Will I still be able to take my laptop onto the plane in hand luggage and/or hold luggage?
The reason I ask is because I've been on domestic flights where they've required smartphones/tablets/laptops to be at least 20% charged when boarding. Here is a somewhat old link regarding minimum charge of electronics on flights to the US.
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I flew with Delta to the US last week. In the queue to the checkin counter (when they put those little stickers on the back of your passport) I was asked if all electronics where sufficiently charged to be able to demonstrate that they were working devices. However, at no point was I asked to actually do that.
My conclusion: you could be asked to power up the laptop but won't always. As far as I understood, what they mainly are concerned about is that you would replace the battery with explosives. For this reason I assume that powering up using the power cord will not be sufficient.
I was flying from Western Europe, but not the UK. I am not sure if this only applies to hand luggage or also to checked luggage.
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If the battery doesn't work so you know you'll have to use the power cord anyway, could you remove the battery and leave it at home for your trip? I understood the issue to be that batteries were being used to conceal explosives, so if you don't have a battery at all that might be OK.
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