Restricted and Dangerous Items

There are sets of items that are prohibited from being carried in the cabin of an aircraft, or on the person. Customers are asked to remove such items from their hand baggage. The following are lists of articles that may not be carried into a restricted zone, or the cabin of an aircraft:

Any chemical or toxic substance, which poses a risk to the health of passengers and crew, or, the security / safety of aircraft or property, including, but not limited to:

• 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)
• Fire extinguishers
• Infectious or biological hazardous material (e.g. infected blood, bacteria and viruses)
• Material capable of spontaneous ignition or combustion
• Poisons
• Radioactive material (medicinal or commercial isotopes)

Any object capable, or appearing capable, of discharging a projectile or causing injury, including, but not limited to:

• Air pistols / rifles and pellet guns
• All firearms (pistols, revolvers, rifles, air rifles, shotguns etc.)
• Animal humane killers
• Ball bearing guns
• Catapults
• Component parts of firearms (excluding telescopic sighting devices and sights)
• Crossbows
• Harpoon & spear guns
• Industrial bolt and nail guns
• Lighters shaped like firearms
• Replica and imitation firearms
• Signal flare pistols
• Starter pistols
• Stun or shocking devices (e.g. cattle prods, ballistics conducted energy weapons, tasers)
• Toy guns of all types

Any blunt instrument capable of causing injury, including, but not limited to:

• Baseball and softball bats
• Billiard, snooker and pool cues
• Clubs or batons – rigid or flexible (e.g. billy clubs, blackjacks, nightsticks and batons)
• Cricket bats
• Fishing rods
• Golf clubs
• Hockey sticks
• Kayak and canoe paddles
• Lacrosse sticks
• Martial arts equipment (e.g. knuckle dusters, clubs, coshes, rice flails, num chucks, kubatons and kubasaunts)
• Skateboards

Pointed or bladed articles capable of causing injury, including, but not limited to:

• Arrows and darts
• Axes and hatchets
• Corkscrews
• Crampons
• Harpoons and spears
• Household cutlery
• Hypodermic syringes (unless for a proven medical purpose)
• Ice axes and ice picks
• Ice skates
• 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
• Lockable or flick knives with blades of any length
• Machetes
• Meat cleavers
• Open razors and blades (excluding safety or disposable razors with blades enclosed in cartridge)
• Sabres, swords & 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, blow torches)

Any explosive or highly combustible substance, which poses a risk to the health of passengers and crew or the security / safety of aircraft or property, including, but not limited to:

• Aerosol spray paint
• Alcoholic beverages exceeding 70% by volume (140% proof)
• Ammunition
• Blasting caps
• Detonators and fuses
• Explosives and explosive devices
• Fireworks, flares in any form and other pyrotechnics (including party poppers and toy caps)
• Flammable liquid fuel (e.g. petrol/gasoline, diesel, lighter fluid, alcohol, ethanol)
• Gas and gas containers (e.g. butane, propane, acetylene, oxygen - in large volume)
• Grenades of all types
• Mines and other explosive military stores
• Non safety matches
• Replica or imitation explosive material or devices
• Smoke generating canisters or cartridges
• Turpentine and paint thinner

There are sets of items that are prohibited from being carried in hold baggage. Customers are asked to remove such items from their baggage. The following articles should not be placed in hold baggage:

• Corrosives (e.g. mercury or vehicle batteries)
• Explosives (e.g. detonators, fuses, grenades or mines)
• Flammable gases (e.g. propane, butane)
• Flammable liquids (e.g. gasoline or methanol)
• Flammable solids and reactive substances (e.g. magnesium, firelighters, fireworks or flares)
• Oxidizers and organic peroxides (e.g. bleach or car body repair kits)
• Radioactive material (e.g. medicinal or commercial isotopes)
• Toxic or infectious substances (e.g. rat poison or infected blood)
• Vehicle fuel system components which have contained fuel

The list below shows items which are not recommended for carriage as hold baggage:

• Bottles
• Christmas trees and types of foliage
• Commercial samples of value
• Crockery, ornaments, etc
• Glassware
• Hat boxes (cardboard variety)
• Lampshades
• Musical instruments, without hard casing
• Overpacked items and/or any item which requires binding to hold it together as a result of overpacking
• Pictures
• Precision instruments
• Television sets, video recorders, tape recorders, computers, compact disc players and other portable items of this nature
• Wicker work baskets or items of a similar nature