What’s Allowed or Not on Board

Items permitted in aircraft cabins:

Pets (depends on airline; check for policy)

Walking canes and umbrellas, after they are inspected to ensure prohibited items are not concealed

Nail clippers with nail files

Nail files

Tweezers

Safety razors

Syringes, with medication and professionally printed label identifying medication or manufacturer’s name

Insulin delivery systems

Eyelash curlers

These items are not allowed through the security checkpoint. Please note that this list is not all-inclusive:

Ammunition

Automatic weapons

Axes

Baseball bats

BB guns

Billy clubs

Blasting caps

Bows and arrows

Box cutters

Brass knuckles

Bullwhips

Cattle prods

Compressed air guns

Corkscrews

Cricket bats

Crowbars

Disabling chemicals or gases

Dog repellent spray

Dynamite

Fire extinguishers

Flare pistols

Golf clubs

Gun lighters

Gunpowder

Hammers

Hand grenades

Hatchets

Hockey sticks

Hunting knives

Ice ax or ice pick

Knives (any length)

Kubatons (mini-batons)

Large, heavy tools (such as wrenches, pliers etc.)

Mace

Martial arts devices

Meat cleavers

Metal scissors

Pen knives

Pepper spray

Pistols

Plastic explosives

Pool cues

Portable power drills

Portable power saws

Razor blades

Replica weapons

Revolvers

Rifles

Road flares

Screwdrivers

Scuba knives

Shotguns

Ski poles

Spear guns

Starter pistols

Straight razors

Tear gas

Toy weapons

There are no provisions for returning banned items to passengers when they are left at the security checkpoint. Those who try to take banned items through a checkpoint are subject to civil penalties of up to $1,100 per violation besides criminal penalties.