IndiGo: can you take a vape, lighter and cigarettes on board?

IndiGo's dangerous-goods page has an item table with one column for cabin baggage and one for checked baggage. E-cigarettes carry a cross in both columns: they are not allowed in the cabin and not allowed in the hold. That is stricter than most airlines, which accept a vape in the cabin bag, so a device that is fine on another carrier is not accepted here. For the general airline rule, see our guide to vapes on planes.

The reason is the law the airline operates under. India's Prohibition of Electronic Cigarettes Act, 2019 bans the import, transport, storage and sale of e-cigarettes, and the definition names "Heat Not Burn Products" as well. Our India rules page has the penalties and the source for each. IndiGo's page does not mention heated-tobacco devices such as IQOS, but because the Act covers them, treat them the same as a vape.

IndiGo's page does not give a number of lighters or say where an ordinary lighter must travel, so we state only what it says. For flights leaving India, the security regulator also has rules on lighters; those were not on the saved IndiGo page and we do not repeat them here. Our guide to lighters on planes compares the regulators.

Cigarettes are marked as allowed in both cabin and checked baggage. IndiGo sets no quantity: the limit that matters is the customs allowance of the country you land in. Read the page for your destination before you pack.

Coming back to India, the cigarette limit is 100 sticks, 25 cigars or 125 g of tobacco; see the India rules page. Popular IndiGo destinations with their own pages include Thailand, Singapore, United Arab Emirates and United Kingdom.

IndiGo's baggage page does not state a rule or a penalty for smoking on board, and we found no fine published by IndiGo. Do not treat that as permission: smoking is banned on commercial flights, and a vape cannot be carried on IndiGo at all.

If you fly IndiGo from Delhi or Mumbai, check the smoking-area lists for Delhi and Mumbai before you clear security, since you cannot smoke again until you land. Indian terminals are non-smoking indoors, so any designated area is a separate room or outdoor spot, and the list shows its status and where we hold details. If you connect, leave time to reach it and return through security.