Tools in cabin luggage.

[MichaelW2]

Specifically, can I carry a standard swiss army penknife in cabin luggage. It is a forrester model, ie non locking under 3" blade. I see signs at airports that this is now permitted but is this the case for all airlines?

 

[Spiderweb]

A big NO

 

[ianrauk]

I wouldn't risk it.

 

[S-Express]

Knifes in hand luggage - hmm, that's a tough one...

 

[Tim Hall]

No.

Looky at Government Regulations here:

Knife (with a sharp or pointed blade and/or blade longer than 6cm) No

Note that it's and/or, so having a sharp or pointy blade means no, regardless of length.

 

[Brandane]

No chance! They don't even allow allen keys.

 

[Lonestar]

I had a pair of pliers accidentally left in my rucksack by accident after a bike tourand they were confiscated never to be seen again....

 

[Cycleops]

Risk it and lose it.

 

[LonesomeWanderer]

If you want pointy sharp things I think you have to fly business class where they hand them out with your meal.....

 

[Tin Pot]

If you want pointy sharp things I think you have to fly business class where they hand them out with your meal.....

I'll never forget ordering steak airside and being served with a normal fork and a "knife" that was basically a spoon.

I just looked at the waitress. She apologised but couldn't do anything other than offer a replacement meal.

 

[bigjim]

I had one of these confiscated. I suppose they thought I was going to unbolt the wing.

 

[MichaelW2]

On advisement I will limit my hand luggage toolkit to a plastic spork.

 

[slowmotion]

I've had a vernier caliper taken off me by Thomas Cook Airlines. Apparently I could stab all the crew to death with its depth gauge before aiming the aircraft at the nearest branch of Screwfix, or something.

 

[Salty seadog]

I've had a vernier caliper taken off me by Thomas Cook Airlines. Apparently I could stab all the crew to death with its depth gauge before aiming the aircraft at the nearest branch of Screwfix, or something. View attachment 154940

I wish you could give multiple likes, I laughed so hard I nearly knocked the table over.

 

[slowmotion]

I wish you could give multiple likes, I laughed so hard I nearly knocked the table over.

The scanner on an EasyJet flight picked up a suspicious metallic object in my small backpack. It was a router collet with a £35 Trend cutter attached. Lord knows what it was doing there. My mistake was to tell them that it was a "cutter". They let me keep the collet. It would actually be pretty hard to do any serious damage to anybody with a router cutter without the tool that rotates it.