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Security Tips for Air Travelers

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When you are preparing for your trip, remember to pack smart — pack safe. You cannot bring the items listed below on your person or in carry-on luggage.

• Knives of any length, composition, or description.
• All cutting and puncturing instruments. This includes pocketknives, carpet knives and box cutters, ice picks, straight razors, metal scissors, and metal nail files.
• Corkscrews.
• Athletic equipment that could be used as a weapon, such as baseball/softball bats, golf clubs, pool cues, ski poles, and hockey sticks.
• Weapons — firearms, ammunition, gunpowder, mace, tear gas, or pepper spray.
• Aerosol spray cans — hair spray, deodorant, insect repellant, or butane fuel (such as in curling iron refills, scuba tanks, propane tanks, cartridges, and self-inflating rafts).
• Explosives — fireworks, sparklers, or signal flares.
• Flammable liquids or solids — fuel, paints, paint thinners or cleaners, lighter fluid, and perfume (no more than 16 oz.).
• Other hazardous items — dry ice, gas-powered tools, wet-cell batteries, camping equipment with fuel, radioactive materials, poisons, infectious substances.
• Leave gifts unwrapped. Airline security personnel will open gifts if the X-ray scan cannot determine the contents.
• If in doubt, don’t pack it.

       

Security Tips from the Air Line Pilots Assn., Int’l,
the U.S. Department of Transportation, and
the Federal Aviation Administration