Corrections & accuracy: how this site stays honest

A travel-rules site is only useful if it is right — and visibly accountable when it is not. This page is the standing record of how we verify, how we correct, and how you can hold us to it.

The standard every page is held to

Every item page, airline page, guide, and tool on CanICarryIt is built on the same contract: accuracy beats completeness, always. Rules come from primary sources — TSA's What Can I Bring list, CATSA's published rules, FAA PackSafe, CBP, CBSA, FinCEN, and the airlines' own baggage pages. Where a rule is genuinely ambiguous, the page says so in plain language and tells you who to confirm with ("verify with your airline"), instead of inventing a confident-sounding number. You will never see a limit, fee, or date on this site that we could not point to in an official source at the time it was written.

What the "last verified" date means

The date shown on every page is the last day that specific rule was re-checked against its official source — not the date the site was built. When a source changes (an airline merges, a fee appears, a ban starts), the rule gets rewritten and the date resets. When we re-verify a rule and it is still correct, the date resets too. Dates are never bumped without the underlying check.

How to report an error

If you spot something wrong — a changed fee, a stale limit, a rule that reads differently at the checkpoint — tell us via the contact page. The fastest corrections include the official source link (tsa.gov, catsa-acsta.gc.ca, faa.gov, or the airline's own page). Reports go into the same verification workflow as our own audits: check against the primary source, rewrite precisely what changed, reset the verified date.

What we correct for free, unprompted

Rules change whether anyone reports them or not, so the dataset gets swept on a schedule: high-traffic items and airlines are re-verified regularly, and the full dataset passes through an end-to-end audit against live official sources. Material corrections are substantial enough to alter what you would pack — a fare that stops including a carry-on, an airline that ceases operations, a new marking requirement on power banks. When those happen, the fix ships immediately, not in the next cycle.

The limits of any summary

No third-party site replaces the officer at the checkpoint or the agent at the gate. TSA explicitly states the final decision rests with the screening officer; airlines can and do enforce stricter policies than security authorities. For anything expensive, fragile, or legally sensitive — drones, medication, cash, gold — confirm directly with the airline before you fly. We would rather lose your trust less often than win your click with overconfidence.

Last reviewed 2026-07-30.