carry-on rules
 

is it permissable to carry a Zippo lighter on-board in a carry-on or in your pocket? Thanks.

Good question. On one flight, I was allowed to carry onboard 1 matchbook, 2 other matchbooks in my carry-on were confiscated. On another occasion, my clear disposable lighter was confiscated. Colored disposables were okay. This was all before the notorious shoebomber incident. Never tried a Zippo.

The only time I have seen them make a deal about it was in Dayton in May, they were making people squeeze all the fluid into a garbage can before they let them through. Didn't quite understand the logic of filling a garbage can in an airport with paper towels filled with lighter fluid, but it's airport security we are talking about here.

Lighter fluid soaked into paper towels in a garbage can (or puddled all by itself in an open container) indoors will gradually evaporate into poisonous fumes.

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True, but I am surprised these bozos didn't make the Pax DRINK the contents of their lighters to see if they were poisonous or not!

Yeah, but they were told that nobody could get on with a full lighter, and didn't care that the entire terminal smelled like lighter fluid. Would have been a cool blow torch.