carry on

When he travels, Sanjay Padval, the director of product at San Francisco tech company Vanta, follows a simple packing regimen: a couple shirts or polos, nice slacks or chinos, shoes and workout clothes, all in a carry-on.

The alarm for my 6 a.m. flight to Atlanta was just hours from going off, my carry-on packed.

A commercial passenger flight operated by Air China was safely diverted to Shanghai on Saturday after a battery stowed in a passenger's carry-on luggage caught fire, the airline said.

"A lithium battery spontaneously ignited in a passenger's carry-on luggage stored in the overhead bin on flight CA139," the airline said in a statement on Chinese social media platform Weibo.

They will automatically be in an early boarding group, so carry-on space won’t be an issue.