Coil each cable and secure it with a short velcro strap or a hair tie before it goes into a dedicated electronics pouch. A few seconds of coiling per cable prevents most tangling before it starts, which is far easier than untangling a knot of cables later.
Keep the pouch in an accessible compartment — ideally the same one every trip — since chargers and adapters tend to be needed at both the start and end of a journey rather than only on arrival, and digging through a main compartment to find them is a common frustration otherwise.
Grouping by device or purpose inside the pouch — phone cables together, a laptop charger in its own compartment — speeds up finding the right cable further, particularly useful for anyone traveling with several devices that use different connector types.
Check with your airline and read the label before you follow anything here. Lithium battery watt-hour limits, liquids allowances and lock policies differ by carrier and by country, and change over time — the figures published by the airline or security authority you are actually traveling with take precedence over anything written on this site. A power bank or spare battery is carried exactly as its manufacturer and your airline specify, never estimated. We report what is published — a watt-hour rating, a size limit, a lock's official recognition — and this site describes the equipment only: nothing here is a guarantee about what a specific checkpoint will allow on a specific day.
Last reviewed 26 August 2026