Southwest Airlines will soon be requiring passengers to keep portable chargers visible while in use due to concerns about lithium battery fires. The number of fires attributed to lithium-ion ...

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 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 ...

In 2023, a flight from Dallas to Orlando, Florida, made an emergency landing in Jacksonville, Florida, after a battery caught fire in an overhead bin. Southwest said that requiring these chargers ...

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 in ...