How Airportly works

Independent

Airportly is not affiliated with any airport, airline or authority. It has no advertising and no paid placements. Airport names and codes are used only to say which airport a page is about.

How we check official guidance

• We read the airport's own pages, or the aviation authority's, and record the source, the exact passage each rule rests on, and the date it was read.
• A rule is shown as official guidance only after a person has approved it against those passages. Until then the page says it isn't verified yet, rather than guessing.
• When the airport is vague, says it depends on the checkpoint, says nothing, or sources disagree, we say exactly that.
• The airport's own announcements, such as press releases, appear only as dated history or as context for an unclear rule, never as a current rule: a planned change isn't proof that it has happened everywhere.
• News articles and other websites are never used as evidence. They can only prompt us to check the official source.
• Every rule shows when it was last checked. Guidance that hasn't been re-checked recently is marked as possibly out of date.
• Where an airport hasn't been checked, general rules (for example, the EU's) may be shown, always labelled as general and never as that airport's own.

How traveler reports work

• Anyone who went through security in the last 7 days can answer three short questions, without an account. Only the answers are published, without names or contact details; the optional private note never is.
• Reports from the last 30 days are shown separately from official guidance: one or two reports individually, more as counts ("3 of 5 were asked…"), never as percentages.
• Reports never change, confirm or hide official guidance. If most recent travelers report something different, the page says so.
• To prevent abuse, submissions are rate-limited and checked for automated traffic. Anyone can flag a report; flags from three different people hide it until we have reviewed it. See the terms for how moderation works.
• An optional private note goes only to the editor. It is never published. See Privacy for what is stored and for how long.

Accuracy

Screening procedures change, and can differ between terminals, lanes and days. Airportly can be wrong or out of date. Instructions from security staff always come first, and the airport's own website is the authority. If you spot a mistake, tell us at hello@airportly.net.

Sources and credits

• Airport names, codes and locations come from OurAirports, which is in the public domain.
• Each airport page links to the official sources its guidance is based on.

Who runs Airportly

Airportly is run by Tómas Elí Stefánsson, a private individual in Denmark. Contact: hello@airportly.net. See also the terms of use.