Keep in your cabin bag anything valuable, fragile, or lithium-powered: power banks and spare batteries, phones, laptops, medicines, documents, and one change of clothes. Put in checked baggage anything sharp, bulky, or over 100ml of liquid: full-size toiletries, tools, and most aerosols. A few flammables are banned from both bags entirely. Updated June 2026 ·
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Yes — you can bring your personal laptop, phone and gadgets into India. One laptop and your in-use phone are customarily treated as personal effects within the Rs 75,000 duty-free allowance, so there’s usually no duty. Brand-new, sealed or multiple identical high-value items can be taxed — declare them via the Red Channel and keep
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The stamp or punch on your boarding pass is the CISF’s proof that you and your cabin bag cleared the security check. The gate agent re-checks it before letting you board, so an unstamped pass gets you turned back. This is still standard at most Indian airports in 2026 — it has not been universally
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When you fly back to India in 2026, the General Free Allowance lets Indian residents, NRIs, OCI cardholders and foreigners on non-tourist visas bring in goods worth up to Rs 75,000 duty-free (Rs 25,000 for foreign tourists of non-Indian origin), per CBIC Baggage Rules 2026. That covers used personal effects plus gifts and souvenirs, along
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For a domestic flight in India you must carry an original government-issued photo ID along with your confirmed ticket or boarding pass; it’s checked at terminal entry, security and the boarding gate. The most reliably accepted IDs are Aadhaar (including mAadhaar), passport, driving licence and Voter ID, with PAN and a few others also on
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In hand luggage on a flight from an Indian airport, each liquid container may hold no more than 100 ml, and all your containers must fit inside one clear, re-sealable plastic bag of up to 1 litre. That single transparent bag is your practical ceiling. Medicines with a prescription, inhalers, and baby food are exempt
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Yes. India does place armed, plain-clothes air marshals (also called sky marshals) on select domestic and international flights, under the country’s BCAS and NSG security framework. Their job is covert in-flight security and deterrence: preventing hijackings and responding to serious threats. Deployment is selective, discreet and threat-driven, so most passengers will simply never know one
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On a single ticket (one PNR) with an interline or codeshare agreement, your checked bag is usually tagged through to the final destination and you collect it once at the end. On separate tickets, a self-transfer, the bag goes only to the first airport, so you reclaim it, clear customs if needed, and re-check it
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Gate-checking is when the crew takes your cabin bag at the boarding gate or aerobridge and stows it in the hold, usually because the overhead bins are full or the aircraft is small. It’s normally free when your bag is within the cabin allowance and bins are simply out of space. One catch unique to
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Two rules cause most of the trouble at Indian airports. First: power banks and spare lithium batteries must travel in your cabin bag — never in checked baggage. Second: any liquid, gel or aerosol in your cabin bag must be in a container of 100 ml or less. Sharp objects and most tools go in
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