Can You Bring a Lightstick on a Plane? The Answer Depends on Which Kind You Own
Photo: An audience lightstick ocean at an EXO concert. Photo by Foxy'Stay, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, taken 8 October 2025. (CC BY-SA 4.0) If you searched can you bring a lightstick on a plane , the short answer is yes . But almost every English result is about a different object. Those pages are about glow sticks , the chemical tubes you snap to activate, which are judged as a liquid. A K-pop lightstick, called 응원봉 ( eungwonbong ) in Korean, is not a liquid. It is a battery-powered device, and battery rules apply instead. The safest packing, every time: put the lightstick and every battery in your hand luggage, switch the lightstick fully off so it cannot turn on inside a bag, and insulate the terminals of any battery you take out of the device. That answer needs no lookup and is accepted everywhere. Everything below is for when you want to check a bag instead. Rules were checked on 2026-09-10. On this page Thirty seconds: open the battery door Which battery does your li...