List of Prohibited Items

Passengers and Cabin Luggage

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 2 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

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

Objects with a sharp point or sharp edge — objects with a sharp point or sharp edge 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

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

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

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
• Firearms and other devices shooting ammunition of missiles – devices capable or appearing capable of inflicting serious injuries, such as:
• ammunition
• blasting caps
• detonators and fuses
• mines, grenades and other explosive military stores
• fireworks and other pyrotechnics
• smoke-generating canisters and smoke-generating cartridges
• dynamite, gunpowder and plastic explosives

For more details contact your airliner or travel agent.