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My goodness, the questions that come up here.
Well my take on it is that provided it doesn't have a razor sharp edge it should be fine in hand luggage. If you want to be completely safe, just take it out of the bag and put it face up on the tray.. Probably the staff will enjoy seeing it.
Well my take on it is that provided it doesn't have a razor sharp edge it should be fine in hand luggage. If you want to be completely safe, just take it out of the bag and put it face up on the tray.. Probably the staff will enjoy seeing it.
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OT - Beer pump label in hand carry?
Not sure why this is OT if you are flying BA?
I don't know the answer, but if you are checking in luggage and don't need access to the pump label in flight, why not just put it on your checked bag? Then this isn't an issue or have I missed something?
I have an 8 hour stop in Syd - meeting a mate who is getting the pump label - if I can carry this hand carry can check my bag all the way to my final destination.
I once carried a metal cylinder about 25cm long and 12cm in diameter in hand luggage. It was solid and made of two metals, a smaller internal core of a denser metal surrounded by a less dense envelope.
Well, it attracted some attention and was rolled down the belt at the screening, but they let it through.
Don't think there is any problem with beer pump stuff. (Except the limit on 100ml of liquid!)
OT but it reminds me of an interesting experience going through security about 6 months after 9-11 when I was still in the aviation business. I was in the flight control (FBW) sector and I had an avionic unit used on the 777 with me as hand luggage. These are generally about the size of a paperback book but a bit thicker - about 50mm, black and on one edge is a row of connectors. This unit however was non-operational and had been previously used in high temperature testing in an environmental chamber. Given what it had been subjected to it could never be used on an operational aircraft.
Now as anyone in the aviation business knows, to avoid any possible confusion with real units destined for operational aircraft, spares etc, it is customary (maybe mandatory - can't 100% remember) to have the wording "NOT FOR FLIGHT" stencilled on test / life expired items that should never be used operationally on a real aircraft.
So there I was going through security and they pounced on this item and this wording caused much discussion and debate among security staff and about three levels of the BAA security supervision / management were called down as no one would make a decision! Their stance was "you cannot take this in board as it specifically says it is NOT FOR FLIGHT". No amount of discussion, explanation as to the proper purpose of the words would budge them, as far as they were concerned it could not possibly be taken on-board an aircraft.
I had to leave it behind and not take it - fortunately I was parked in the short-term car park so was able to pop back.
Bl**dy annoying at the time - but I guess I can't blame them really
This a timely thread as my wife and I were discussing something similar last night.
Due to the poor quality of crutches here my mother in law has requested we bring her back a pair from the UK. She recently had a fall and bent one of hers. (dodgy hips)
If they aren't collapsible we shall have to carry them as hand luggage.. I suggested to my wife that in order to be allowed to take them on-board she might have to....
a) Carry the two, feign a hobble and use them.
or
b) We carry one each and hobble on through the airport as a pair.
Serious question honestly....do you think we would we be allowed to take them on board as hand luggage?
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Originally Posted by HIDDY
Serious question honestly....do you think we would we be allowed to take them on board as hand luggage?
I've often seen crutches on board so that's not a problem. I sometimes fly with my shepherd's crook as hand luggage, and apart from NZ anxiously but inevitably checking for soil contamination it hasn't caused any issue, apart from ribald commentary. And I've seen bishops with crosiers, and they look lethal!
I've carried an alluminium locomotive nameplate wrapped in a (IC Barclay) towel as hand luggage about 7 years ago. Got some odd questions going thru the scanner but it was OK!
I've seen bishops with crosiers, and they look lethal!
I used to carry fishing rods although that was many years ago when almost anything was allowed.
Hopefully we will be able to get ones that collapse to suitcase size.....I don't really fancy having to carry a set of crutches about to be honest. We already have priority boarding anyway.
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This a timely thread as my wife and I were discussing something similar last night.
Due to the poor quality of crutches here my mother in law has requested we bring her back a pair from the UK. She recently had a fall and bent one of hers. (dodgy hips)
a) Carry the two, feign a hobble and use them.
or
b) We carry one each and hobble on through the airport as a pair.
Serious question honestly....do you think we would we be allowed to take them on board as hand luggage?
On a flight this afternoon from Vienna a PAX had the pair in the cabin
Sorry for fall, hope 4 fast recovery
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