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British Airways Security Prohibited Items List

- PASSENGERS AND CABIN BAGGAGE -

Without prejudice to applicable safety rules, passengers are not permitted to carry the

following articles into security restricted areas or on board an aircraft, on either their person

or in cabin baggage:

(a) guns, firearms and other devices that discharge projectiles – devices

capable, or appearing capable, of being used to cause serious injury by

discharging a projectile, including:

• firearms of all types, such as pistols, revolvers, rifles, shotguns

• toy guns, replicas and imitation firearms capable of being

mistaken for real weapons

• component parts of firearms, excluding telescopic sights

• compressed air and CO

guns, such as pistols, pellet guns, rifles

and ball bearing guns

• signal flare pistols and starter pistols

• bows, cross bows and arrows

• harpoon guns and spear guns

• slingshots and catapults

(b) stunning devices – devices designed specifically to stun or immobilise,

including:

• devices for shocking, such as stun guns, tasers and stun batons

• animal stunners and animal killers

• disabling and incapacitating chemicals, gases and sprays, such

as mace, pepper sprays, capsicum sprays, tear gas, acid sprays

and animal repellent sprays

sharpedge capable of being used to cause serious injury, including:

• items designed for chopping, such as axes, hatchets and

cleavers

• ice axes and ice picks

• razor blades

• box cutters

• knives with blades of more than 6 cm

• scissors with blades of more than 6 cm as measured from the

fulcrum

• martial arts equipment with a sharp point or sharp edge

• swords and sabres

(d) workmen's tools – tools capable of being used either to cause serious injury

or to threaten the safety of aircraft, including:

• crowbars

• drills and drill bits, including cordless portable power drills

• tools with a blade or a shaft of more than 6 cm capable of use as

a weapon, such as screwdrivers and chisels

• saws, including cordless portable power saws

• blowtorches

• bolt guns and nail guns

(e) blunt instruments – objects capable of being used to cause serious injury

when used to hit, including:

• baseball and softball bats

• clubs and batons, such as billy clubs, blackjacks and night sticks

• martial arts equipment

(f) explosives and incendiary substances and devices – explosives and

incendiary substances and devices capable, or appearing capable, of being

used to cause serious injury or to pose a threat to the safety of aircraft,

including:

• ammunition

• blasting caps

• detonators and fuses

• replica or imitation explosive devices

• mines, grenades and other explosive military stores

• fireworks and other pyrotechnics

• smoke-generating canisters and smoke-generating cartridges

• dynamite, gunpowder and plastic explosives

(g) British Airways also prohibits any other article, which in the reasonable

contemplation of the aerodrome manager or aircraft operator might be used or

adapted for causing injury or incapacitation of a person.

- HOLD BAGGAGE -

Passengers are not permitted to carry the following articles in their hold baggage:

(a) explosives and incendiary substances and devices – explosives and incendiary

substances and devices capable, or appearing capable, of being used to cause

serious injury or to pose a threat to the safety of aircraft, including: