Luggage
Items prohibited inside the aircraft cabin:
1. Guns, firearms and weapons
Any object capable, or appearing capable, of discharging a projectile or causing injury including:
- All firearms (pistols, revolvers, rifles, shotguns, etc.)
- Replica and imitations of firearms
- Component parts of firearms (excluding telescopic sighting devices/sights)
- Air pistols, rifles and pellet guns
- Signal flare pistols
- Starter pistols
- Toy guns of all types
- Ball bearing guns
- Industrial bolt and nail guns
- Crossbows
- Catapults
- Harpoons and spear guns
- Animal humane killers
- Stun or shocking devices, e.g. cattle prods, ballistic conducted, energy weapons (taser)
- Lighters shaped like a firearm
2. Pointed/edged weapons and sharp objects
Pointed or edged articles capable of causing injury, including:
- Axes and hatchets
- Arrows and darts
- Crampons
- Harpoons and spears
- Ice axes and ice picks
- Ice skates
- Lockable or flick knives with blades of any length
- Knives, including ceremonial knives, with blades of more than 6 cm, made of metal or any other material strong enough to be used as a potential weapon,
- Meat cleavers
- Machetes
- Open razors and blades (excluding safety or disposable razors with blades enclosed in cartridge)
- Sabres, swords and swordsticks
- Scalpels
- Scissors with blades more than 6 cm in length,
- Ski and walking/hiking poles
- Throwing stars
- Tradesman’s tools that have the potential to be used as a pointed or edged weapon, e.g. drills and drill bits, box-cutters, utility knives, all saws, screwdrivers, crowbars, hammers, pliers, wrenches/spanners, blowtorches.
3. Blunt instruments
Any blunt instrument capable of causing injury, including:
- Baseball and softball bats
- Cricket bats
- Golf clubs
- Hockey sticks
- Lacrosse sticks
- Kayak and canoe paddles
- Skateboards
- Billiard, snooker and pool cues
- Fishing rods
- Martial arts equipment, e.g. knuckle dusters, clubs, coshes, rice flails, nunchucks, kubatons, kubasaunts
4. Explosives and flammable substances
Any explosive made of a highly combustible substance which poses a risk to the health of passengers and crew or the security of aircraft or property, including:
- Ammunition
- Blasting caps
- Detonators and fuses
- Explosives and explosive devices
- Replica or imitations of explosive material or devices
- Mines and other explosive military stores
- Grenades of all types
- Gas and gas containers, e.g. butane, propane, acetylene, oxygen – in large volume.
- Fireworks, flares in any form and other pyrotechnics (including party poppers and toy caps)
- Strike-anywhere matches
- Smoke-generating canisters or cartridges
- Flammable liquid fuel, e.g. petrol/gasoline, diesel, lighter fluid, alcohol, ethanol
- Aerosol spray paint
- Turpentine and paint thinner
- Alcoholic beverages exceeding 70% in volume
5. Chemical and toxic substances
Any chemical or toxic substance which poses a risk to the health of passengers and crew or the security of aircraft or property, including:
- Acids and alkalis, e.g. spillable ‘wet’ batteries
- Corrosive or bleaching substances, e.g. mercury, chlorine
- Disabling or incapacitating sprays, e.g. mace, pepper spray, tear gas
- Radioactive material, e.g. medicinal or commercial isotopes
- Poisons
- Infectious or biological hazardous material, e.g. infected blood, bacteria and viruses
- Material capable of spontaneous ignition or combustion
- Fire extinguishers
Carriage of liquids in hand baggage
For flights and connecting flights originating within the EU there are restrictions on liquids that can be taken into the cabin. This also applies to flights within Germany.
Liquids, such as gels, pastes, lotions, combinations of liquids and solid matter as well as the contents of pressurised containers, such as toothpaste, hair gel, beverages, soups, syrup, perfume, shaving foam, aerosols and other items of a similar consistency are permitted in hand baggage providing they comply with the following conditions:
- Containers with liquids and similar products may hold up to 100 ml (the maximum quantity printed on the container applies)
- All individual containers must be carried entirely in a transparent, resealable plastic bag (zipped bag) of no more than one litre capacity
- There is a limit of one plastic bag per person
- The bag must be presented separately at the airport passenger security point
Exceptions may be made or carriage outside the plastic bag is possible if the liquid
- is required during the flight for medicinal or special dietary purposes, including baby food. The passenger must be able to prove the authenticity of such liquid and produce supporting documentation from a qualified medical professional or
- has been purchased in the airport under presentation of a boarding pass, sealed at the sales outlet and is accompanied by a receipt bearing the same date
Items prohibited in checked-in baggage
- Explosive devices, including detonators, fuses, grenades, mines and explosives gases: propane, butane
- flammable liquids, including gasoline, methanol
- flammable solids and reactive substances, including magnesium, firelighters, fireworks, flares lighters
- oxidisers and organic peroxides, including bleach, car body repair kits
- toxic or infectious substances, including rat poison, infected blood
- radioactive material, including medicinal or commercial isotopes
- corrosives, including mercury, vehicle batteries
- vehicle fuel system components that have contained fuel
Date: 10 March 2010