Checklist of banned items you can’t carry in hand luggage for Ryanair and Aer Lingus

Jul 27, 2023

Between your personal items, carry on luggage and checked baggage, there are certain items that can't be carried on board the planes - here is a list for Ryanair and Aer Lingus

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Ryanair and Aer Lingus have a strict list of items that are banned from passenger's hand luggage.

The items vary, from those that can't be brought abroad in any luggage and those that must be put in your checked baggage.

Here is a checklist of banned items from the two airlines:

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You must not carry any of the following items in checked-in luggage or carry-on baggage, or go through security with them on you (for example in your pockets).

Any item which could be a danger to the plane, people or property, including the following.

Explosives and substances and devices capable of, or appearing to be capable of, causing serious injury or posing a threat to the safety of the plane, including, detonators and fuses, replica or imitation explosive devices, mines and grenades

Gas and gas containers

Flammable liquids

Flammable solids and substances that cause a chemical reaction

Fireworks, flares, smoke-generating canisters or cartridges, and other pyrotechnics

Paint, turpentine, white spirit and paint thinner

Alcohol with an ABV of more than 70% (140% proof)

Chemicals, toxic substances or infectious substances (for example, acids and alkalis, ‘wet’ batteries, bleach, tear gas, animal-repellent sprays, poisons, infected blood, and bacteria and viruses)

Radioactive material, including medicinal or commercial isotopes

Corrosives, including mercury, vehicle batteries, and parts which have contained fuel

More than one litre in total of edible oil (for example, olive oil)

Lithium ion battery-powered vehicles (including segways and hoverboards) other than any wheelchair or mobility equipment that meets our regulations

Lithium ion battery-powered devices that exceed 160 watt hours

Smart bags which the lithium battery has not been removed from

Guns, firearms, ammunition and weapons, whether real or imitations, including, starting pistols, toy guns or recreational guns (such as paint ball guns), nail guns, bows, slingshots, catapults, harpoon guns, stun guns, tasers, cattle prods and lasers

Parts of firearms (except for sighting devices and sights)

Fire extinguishers (except as authorised by fire procedures and as emergency equipment on the plane)

Lighters and firelighters

Christmas crackers

Energy-saving light bulbs

Items with internal combustion engines

Any blunt instrument capable of causing injury, including the following, must be carried in the hold as checked-in luggage.

Tennis rackets, squash rackets and so on

Cricket bats, baseball bats, softball bats and batons, rigid or flexible

Golf clubs or any other clubs

Hockey sticks, hurley sticks and lacrosse sticks

Kayak and canoe paddles

Skateboards

Billiard, snooker and pool cues

Fishing rods

martial-arts equipment (for example, knuckledusters, coshes, flails,

nunchakus, kubatons and kubasaunts)

Pointed, bladed and sharp objects capable of causing injury must be carried in your checked-in luggage. This includes the following.

Axes and hatchets

Arrows and darts

Crampons, grappling irons, hooked bars of iron and plates with iron spikes used in mountaineering

Harpoons and spears

Ice axes, ice picks and ice skates

Knives with blades of more than 6cm, including lockable or flick knives, ceremonial or religious knives and hunting knives made of metal or any other material strong enough to be used as a potential weapon

Meat cleavers, machetes, sabres, swords and swordsticks

Razors and razor blades (except safety or disposable razors with enclosed blades and razor heads held in plastic compartments)

Scalpels, craft knives and utility knives and scrapers

Scissors with blades more than 6cm, as measured from the hinge

Ski poles and walking or hiking poles

Throwing stars

Tradesman's tools with a blade or a shaft of more than 6cm that have the potential to be used as a weapon (for example, drills and drill bits, box cutters, saws, screwdrivers, chisels, crowbars, hammers, pliers, wrenches, spanners and blowtorches).

Guns, firearms and other devices that discharge projectiles-devices capable, or appearing capable, of being used to cause serious injury by discharging a projectile, including:

firearms of all types, such as pistols, revolvers, rifles, shotguns,

toy guns, replicas and imitation firearms capable of being mistaken for real weapons, component parts of firearms, excluding telescopic sights,

compressed air and CO2 guns, such as pistols, pellet guns, rifles and ball bearing guns,

signal flare pistols and starter pistols, - bows, cross bows and arrows,

harpoon guns and spear guns,

slingshots and catapults

Stunning devices - devices designed specifically to stun or immobilise, including:

devices for shocking, such as stun guns, tasers and stun batons,

animal stunners and animal killers,

disabling and incapacitating chemicals, gases and sprays, such as mace, pepper sprays, capsicum sprays, tear gas, acid sprays and animal repellent sprays;

Objects with a sharp point or sharp edge -objects with a sharp point or sharp edge capable of being used to cause serious injury, including:

items designed for chopping, such as axes, hatchets and cleavers,

ice axes and ice picks,

razor blades,

box cutters,

knives with blades of more than 6 cm,

scissors with blades of more than 6 cm as measured from the fulcrum,

martial arts equipment with a sharp point or sharp edge,

swords and sabres;

Workmen's tools-tools capable of being used either to cause serious injury or to threaten the safety of aircraft, including:

crowbars,

drills and drill bits, including cordless portable power drills,

tools with a blade or a shaft of more than 6 cm capable of use as a weapon, such as screwdrivers and chisels,

saws, including cordless portable power saws,

blowtorches,

bolt guns and nail guns;

Blunt instruments-objects capable of being used to cause serious injury when used to hit, including:

baseball and softball bats,

clubs and batons, such as billy clubs, blackjacks and night sticks,

martial arts equipment;

Explosives and incendiary substances and devices-explosives and incendiary substances and devices capable, or appearing capable, of being used to cause serious injury or to pose a threat to the safety of aircraft, including:

ammunition,

blasting caps,

detonators and fuses,

replica or imitation explosive devices,

mines, grenades and other explosive military stores,

fireworks and other pyrotechnics,

smoke-generating canisters and smoke-generating cartridges,

dynamite, gunpowder and plastic explosives.

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