While that may or may not be true, if you google

flying from mexico knitting needles

Some of the hits on the first page returned include

Mexico: Mexicana’s website does not specifically prohibit knitting needles, but reported conversations with personnel in Mexican airports suggest that the national policy is “no knitting needles.”

My needles were taken from me flying FROM Mexico to US so I know you can't in Mexico.

ever has there been a problem.......until yesterday when I returned from Mexico (Cancun airport). They do NOT allow needles or crochet hooks of any size and when I challenged them on that they took me aside and showed me their manual.

Well… what I missed was to also check Mexican regulations regarding the very same items. When we were going through security checking in our way back, a young lady says I cannot carry my knitting needles with me.

I have not had any problems with needles in the States, but my needles were confiscated when I was flying home from Mexico. We had a tug of war over the yarn though...

My needles were almost nabbed on an outbound flight from Mexico. Mexico’s rules ban knitting needles

flew to Mexico in April and had no trouble on the way there (was knitting socks magic-loop style on sz 1 circulars) but ran into problems on the way back. The security staff at the airport in Mexico would not allow the needles in my carry-on.


While google may or may not show if you can bring your needles (though I can't imagine there would not be user posts indicating for any place on the planet) in the case of Mexico it very clearly shows you can not expect to bring your needles on the plane without even going to a second page of search results.