Articles by Cheshta Agarwal
347 articles
Can I Carry a Steel Tiffin Box on an Indian Flight?
No Indian carrier lists a tiffin box by name, but IndiGo's table refuses steel heavy items and metal items in the cabin and accepts them in checked baggage. What that means for your dabba, the food inside it, and the oily-food trap, checked 25 Oct 2026.
Can I Take an Empty Water Bottle Through Airport Security?
IndiGo's table allows a water bottle in the cabin up to 100 ml and in checked luggage outright; Air India's restricted page has no bottle row and treats water as a LAG. What the empty-bottle move actually relies on, and why the screener still decides.
Can I Pack Ghee or Oil in Checked Luggage?
Air India allows ghee and cooking oil in cabin and checked baggage, with a 5 kg/l per passenger cap in the hold; IndiGo keeps ghee out of the cabin entirely. The 100 ml cabin rule and how to pack a jar that survives the belt.
Can I Carry Homemade Pickle on an International Flight?
Air India allows pickle in cabin and checked baggage; IndiGo keeps it out of the cabin. The 100 ml oil rule, the chilly pickle exception, and the customs check waiting at the other end.
Can I Bring a Drone in Cabin Baggage from India?
Air India and IndiGo genuinely disagree on drones. Air India allows drones up to 2 kg in cabin and checked baggage; IndiGo lists drone cameras as checked only. The battery rules that matter just as much, and the TSA pattern.
Can I Carry a Small Tripod in Cabin Baggage?
Neither Air India nor IndiGo names tripods as restricted, and that alone is not permission. What 55 x 40 x 20 cm and 55 x 35 x 25 cm mean for a folded travel tripod, why bag size and security acceptance are separate checks, and the TSA pattern.
Can I Carry Medicines Without Original Packaging on a Flight?
Neither of the two cited Air India and IndiGo pages states an original-packaging requirement by name, but both demand proof: a prescription, a label matching your boarding pass, sometimes a doctor's note. What the rules say for pills and liquids, and the easiest way to carry them.
Can I Take Insulin and Needles Through Airport Security?
Insulin, pens, syringes and pumps on Indian flights: Air India names diabetes supplies as allowed in both bags, IndiGo allows medicines with a prescription, and the 100 ml liquids rule has a medicine exemption. What to carry and what to expect at the checkpoint.
Can I Take a Shaving Razor on a Domestic Flight?
The everyday razor is the easy one: Air India's restricted-items list bans razor blades that are not in a cartridge from the cabin and specifically excludes safety razors, and the TSA says a plain disposable razor is fine in hand baggage. Loose blades are checked-bag-only on both Air India and IndiGo. Excluded from a ban list is still not a written yes, so the airport screener has the final word.