Hey I don't know if this is the right place to put this but I was just wondering if you are allowed to take gaming consoles on planes in hand luggage after this new rule at sercurity about batteries. I'm going away on friday to Tenerife and was wondering if I can take my Wii U and 3DS with me in my hand luggage.

Thanks for replies in advance.

Off-topic, but I hope you enjoy your time in my island! :D

Semi-related: Maybe Ryanair allows you. Their security is crap, as I've seen in person.

Pretty sure it'll follow the same rule as phones. Charge the battery so you can show them it's working, and that it's not stuffed with plastic explosives.

On international flights, they treat game consoles like laptops. So if you're not checking them in, then you will have to take out the console and get it scanned just like a laptop. I've traveled multiple times with my consoles at many airports in North America and Europe in the past year, and every time I've had to take it out. Even my brand new Wii U had to be taken out from the box to be scanned. Its annoying but I'd rather not check in such fragile stuff cause baggage handlers are very rough. Once I forgot to take it out from my hand baggage, and I they had to open and nspect my hand baggage and re scan the whole thing and console seperately. It wasted 15 min and I had to go back to the end of the line :/ . 

I don't know the rules in Europe, but even on domestic flights in Canada, I've had the same security screening procedures. In Europe I've passed through Heathrow, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Manchester this year and all required me to take out my game console. 

Never heard of that place before. 0.0

Though it's nice to see a fellow islander

A game console probably has the same rules as a laptop on a plane

Oh yeah.. Low budget for the win. :P

Sorry offtopic: What would Ryanair have anything to do with bag security? Surely its the airport that provides the secuirty.

Cool. Still never heard of it.