Packing advices
Help us reduce the queues at security control by ensuring that you enter fully prepared
The following items must not be packed in your hand luggage:
Prohibited in hand luggage but can be packed in the hold
- Scissors (except where both blades are round-ended or less than three centimetres).
- Razor blades (razors that have the blade set into a plastic moulding are allowed, but razors that can be opened and the razor blade removed are prohibited).
- Knives with blades of any length.
- Household cutlery (large spoons/tablespoons are NOT permitted, however small teaspoons are allowed).
- Hypodermic needles (unless required for medical reasons, for which proof will be required).
- Tools (including multi-tools and penknives).
- Catapults.
- Corkscrews.
- Walking/hiking poles.
- Toy/replica guns (metal or plastic).
- Sporting bats.
- Darts.
- Billiard, snooker or pool cues.
If these items are discovered in your hand luggage they will be confiscated and not returned:
Prohibited items on the aircraft
For safety reasons, there are a number of items that cannot be taken onto any aircraft, so please do not pack them in any luggage (hand or hold):
- Flammable liquids and solids.
- Oxidisers such as bleaching powders.
- Organic peroxides.
- Tear gas devices or any gas cylinders.
- Infectious substances such as live virus materials.
- Wet-cell car batteries.
- Magnetrons.
- Instruments containing mercury.
- Instruments containing magnets.
- Fireworks.
- Non-safety matches.
- Fire lighters, lighter fuel, paints, thinners.
- Poisons, arsenic, cyanide, weedkiller.
- Radioactive materials, acids, corrosives, alkalis, caustic soda.
- Creosote, quicklime, oiled paper.
- Vehicle fuel system components which have contained fuel.