Restricted Items
Carry the very minimum of hand baggage, and make sure you arrive early at the airport and allow plenty of time for security screening.
There are some items that you’re not allowed to take on your aircraft in either your hand baggage or your hold luggage, and these are listed below.
Things you're never allowed to take onboard:
- 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
- Firelighters, lighter fuel, paints, thinners
- Poisons, arsenic, cyanide, weedkiller
- Radioactive materials, acids, corrosives, alkalis, caustic soda
- Creosote, quicklime, oiled paper
- Vehicle fuel system parts which have contained fuel
