Hi,
I am traveling in the near future...
Those of you who use axe in the spray bottle is it ok for me to bring it with me during flight it my carry-on--will the pressure make it explode?
Same thing if i check it in will it explode b/c of the pressure in the luggage hold?

security regulations would prevent you from bringing an axe on board a commercial aircraft.


You 'll be fine.

I ment the deordorant

Your Axe won't be alone in the cargo hold. I'm sure the avg. jet holds dozens of aerosol cans.

Im assuming graraps was kidding when he said "an axe"

lol, anyways, yes its fine
something that small wont have any effect on the aircraft and is definately allowed

I think the "big grin" smiley might have given away the fact that he was teasing ...

But from the pressure in the cabin it wont explode rite?

dont worry... it will be fine

The only thing I've ever had explode in the cabin was a bag of peanut-butter filled pretzel nuggets. I reached down to get the it out of my bag and it had blown up so tight that it popped loudly the moment I put in on my tray table. My seat-mate shrieked, the FA came running and I had instant visions of a on-board air marshall with his shoe on my neck and my hands handcuffed behind my back. To this day, I always open a bag of snacks before the plane takes off. It would probably never happen again, but .....

Do you mean the axe, or the aerosol can?

A coworker put a dozen of the cans in his carryon to take home (cheaper where we were than at home). I don't think he had any problems.

Why did it explode--- for those of you who have flow jetblue thety give out snack bags and they never explode?
How come your did?

Although the cabin is pressurized, it's still at less pressure when at altitude than ground level. Thus, the more dense "ground" air in the sealed bag expands when up in the air.

An example of the reverse of this is to drink a bottle of water at altitude, and then close the lid really tight, and put it in your seatback. As the plane descends, you'll see the less dense air in the bottle contract, and the bottle itself will "crush".

There are two reasons that your bags of peanuts or pretzels that the airline gives out don't explode when you open them. First, a typical bag of store-bought potato chips is inflated with extra air, so it looks bigger and the chips don't get crushed as easily. The bags of airline snacks are not. Second, the bags the airline hands out are so miniscule, there's little chance of anything but a small "pop" when the pressure inside and outside the bag equalizes.

When I went to the Cape Cod potato chip factory a few years ago, they asked if I would be travelling on a plane. They gave me paper seals for the bags and told me to prick them with a pin before flying and seal them after landing, for exactly this reason.