Prohibited Items List

Prohibited Items

For safety reasons, there are a number of items that cannot be taken onto any aircraft, so please do not pack them in any luggage (hand or checked):

•  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
• Fire lighters, lighter fuel, paints, thinners
• Poisons, arsenic, cyanide, weed killer
• Radioactive materials, acids, corrosives, alkalis, caustic soda
• Creosote, quicklime, oiled paper
• Vehicle fuel system components which have contained fuel
• lithium batteries

For a more detailed Prohibited Items list, please click here for a printable version of the UK's Department For Transport (DFT) Prohibited Items List and Liquid Restrictions.