Originally Posted by hangpilot
I checked some crackers last December, and they weren't in my case when I got my luggage back, so I'd have to say - NO it's not OK to check them.
I flew LHR-MIA then onto MCI. I don't know if they were confiscated on the UK side, or when the luggage was reinspected at MIA.
Is the small amount of explosive that goes "crack" enough to set off any detectors, when it's in a bag inside a sealed Samsonite Oyster case? Or maybe the TSA know the pattern crackers produce on the x-ray?
You would think that they would leave a note or something...
. Could that just have been "theft" of your crackers???
I took some to the US in handbaggage quite a few (10 maybe?) years ago - without knowing it might be a problem (I was very sweet and niaive...
). Got away with that, no trouble.
A year or two later, one of the questions at BA check-in prompted me to say that I had Christmas Crackers in my hand luggage. They told me that I couldn't do that, but could check them in. They produced a cardboard carton to put them in. that was fine.
Haven't done it since...
Boo