Pack with a categorized checklist — documents, clothes, electronics, toiletries and more. Your custom items and checked-off state are saved in the browser for your next trip.
Carry-on rules to remember: liquids must be in containers of 100ml or less inside a single 1-liter clear bag, and power banks or lighters must go in your carry-on, never in checked luggage.
Dimensions hover around 55×40×20cm but differ by carrier, and low-cost airlines enforce them strictly.
Weight causes more problems. Full-service carriers often allow 10kg while European budget airlines cap at 7 or 8kg — and weighing bags at the gate to charge for excess genuinely happens.
Piece count — usually one cabin bag plus one personal item (laptop bag or handbag). An extra shopping bag can be challenged.
Check your specific airline before departure. This is a packing checklist, not a statement of any airline's rules.
Liquids in cabin baggage must be in containers of 100ml or less, all fitting in one transparent one-litre bag.
The limit is the container's stated capacity. A 200ml bottle holding 50ml is confiscated — they measure the bottle, not the contents.
Counts as liquid — toothpaste, sunscreen, creams, gels, lip gloss, perfume, yoghurt, jam, aerosols.
Exemptions — medication (carry a prescription or letter), baby formula and food, and duty-free purchases in a sealed tamper-evident bag with the receipt.
On long trips, solid alternatives — shampoo bars, toothpaste tablets — sidestep the whole problem.
Lithium batteries are prohibited in checked baggage, because a fire in the hold is neither detectable nor easily extinguished. They must be carried on.
Capacity limits — up to 100Wh freely, 100–160Wh usually two units with airline approval, over 160Wh not permitted.
Convert with Wh = mAh × voltage (usually 3.7V) ÷ 1000. A 20,000mAh bank is about 74Wh and fine; 27,000mAh sits near the 100Wh boundary.
Insulate the terminals, and note that a growing number of airlines now prohibit using or charging them in flight.
Rolling suits t-shirts and trousers that don't crease badly, saving 20–30% of the space folding uses.
Compression bags help most with bulky winter clothing — but they do not reduce weight, so they are useless against a weight limit.
Heavy items near the wheels, so the case is stable when upright.
Fill shoes with socks and cables to eliminate dead space.
Keep one day of clothes and toiletries in the cabin. Delayed checked baggage is more common than people expect.
Power adapters — plug types differ by country: A/B in the US and Japan, C/F across much of Europe, G in the UK, I in Australia.
Passport validity — many countries require six months beyond your entry date, so an unexpired passport can still be refused.
Travel insurance cannot be bought after you have departed.
Medication — painkillers, anti-diarrhoeals, plasters. Familiar brands are hard to find abroad and some need a prescription.
Copies of your passport and bookings — photograph them and keep the images in cloud storage in case of loss.
Checked items persist in browser localStorage, so packing across several days keeps its progress.
Nothing is transmitted, and clearing browser data removes it.
Yes. It's stored in your browser (localStorage), so it survives closing the tab. Nothing is sent to any server.
No. Lithium batteries are banned from checked bags — keep them in your carry-on, and check the capacity limit (typically 100Wh) too.
For international flights, containers must each be 100ml or less and fit in one clear 1-liter bag. Checked luggage has no liquid volume limit.
What this tool bases its numbers on, and how far those numbers go.
The default items are grouped by category and stored, with their checked state, in this browser's localStorage — nothing is sent anywhere. The rules quoted alongside are the common baseline: liquids in containers of 100ml or less inside one transparent 1-litre bag, and lithium batteries in the cabin rather than the hold.A 150ml bottle that is only half full is still refused, because the rule is written against the container's marked capacity and not the liquid inside it.