Cutters in hand luggage

[Dazzy Cristo]

Has anyone taken a cutter on to a plane as hand luggage or been refused? I'm gonna take a freebie plastic one just in case

[cohibaIV]

I wouldn't but there Gain Mr Puff Scotty has got away with worse...

[Drewmidorn]

I've had them taken... once to discover they were selling them at duty free... I mentioned this to the people that took mine.... they sent someone to take them all out of the duty free shop!

[Stevieboy]

They almost definitely will take cutters away....I've seen them in the big perspex disposal box at Edinburgh airport. Safest to put them in your hold luggage or do as I do and pre-clip your holiday smokes

[Stevieboy]

I wouldn't but there Gain Mr Puff Scotty has got away with worse...

English please??

[TJCoro]

Hier Gesprochene Englisch!

English please??

You're wasting your breath, senor stevietheboy....I've been askin' that since I got here.

He's here...he speaks queer....GET USED TO IT!!!


Names Perro, el Perro, and I use Google Chrome on senor CIV's posts!

[Simon Bolivar]

Don't put cutters in Hand Luggage or on your person, they will get taken. I had a ceramic one taken at Manchester airport, had to pay for a jiffybag & postage & it never arrived sure the security woman just jditched it in the bin.
Try a punch on oyur key ring, so far been lucky.

[cohibaIV]

English please??

Up yours

[Robusto]

I faced the third degree when being security checked for the Eurostar to Brussels. I saw the whole of the waiting queue pass me by until a third official said my silver thing was for slicing cigars.

After that, I will always stow my guillotine away with my drugs and not be caught.

[Stevieboy]

You're wasting your breath, senor stevietheboy....I've been askin' that since I got here.

He's here...he speaks queer....GET USED TO IT!!!


Names Perro, el Perro, and I use Google Chrome on senor CIV's posts!

Ha ha....he makes even less sense in the flesh....

[The Rodster]

I travel pretty regularly around Europe and for the last 6 months have had a plastic disposable lighter and cutter in my briefcase, without realising it. I've never been stopped at customs. That said, I would never risk travelling with a more expensive lighter and cutter in case it gets taken.

[cohibaIV]

Ha ha....he makes even less sense in the flesh....

How would you know Mr I'm in Ed but won't tell CIV...

[EugeneSax]

A few years back (2004?) I flew to Jersey for a week's self catering holiday with wife & my parents. At the last moment I threw a corkscrew in to my hand luggage - a small rucksack that I had always travelled with over the previous few years.

Anyhow, at Eastleigh airport I was stopped at security as the corkscrew showed up on the xray machine and my rucksack was given a thorough inspection. They must have found 2 or 3 cheap plastic cutters in each of the rucksack's several compartments as I'd usually throw one in every time I travelled anywhere, just to be on the safe side. Their little plastic dish was awash with probably about 10 of the things - 'twas a wee bit embarrasing especially as I eventually had to make a dash to get the plane before it taxied off.

The interesting thing was that the security officer wasn't sure at the time if I should be allowed them on the plane or not. It took several of her colleagues, all of increasing rank before a definite decission was made not to allow them on with me. Luckilly I had packed my best cutter & lighters in my luggage, and also had an unfound credit card style cutter in my credit card wallet. The only place that's ever stopped me with that was Columbo airport on a flight back from the Maldives, whence it was put in a sealed plastic sack in the plane's hold & I collected it later from the luggage carousel.

[Drewmidorn]

I think the main problem is inconsistency. I fly a lot and because my work gear goes in a flight case and counts as my hold luggage I take everything else (clothes/cigars/camera etc) in my hold bag. I always pop my cutter and some matches in my flight case. However I used to carry cables/leads in my hand luggage thinking nothing of it... In france they were confiscated as a strangulation risk! I had made 5 flights already that week with the leads and never been stopped. Over ?100 worth of cables!!! I got quite irate and my work colleague mentioned the fact that he was quite capable of strangling someone with the strap of his bag or his shoelaces... and in a broad northern irish accent... that didn't help. Luckily the production manager was on the same flight and arranged for the leads to be shipped back with some of the crew in their hold luggage who were on a later flight .

The point being... they can change the rules as and when they see fit. If you even question it yourself don't take it, because someone else will question it too.

[Simon Bolivar]

Strangulation risk? Well slight but at least that could kill someone. I had my emergency rescue whistle confiscatated at Plymouth airport as it was deemed I might continually blow it, causing hearing loss to those around me. It was a safety whistle & had to go out on a loney Scottish Loch with out it, urgh!