Security information
Security information
Security information
See what you can carry as hand baggage for flights departing from Gatwick
Help us reduce the queues at security control by ensuring that you do not pack prohibited items in your hand luggage or hold baggage. The following items must not be packed in your hand luggage. They must be placed in the baggage you hand over at the check-in desk. If these items are discovered in your hand luggage they will be confiscated and not returned:
Prohibited in hand luggage (but can be packed in the hold)
- Razor blades (razors that have the blade set into a plastic moulding are allowed, but razors that can be opened and the razor blade removed are prohibited)
- Knives and scissors with a sharp or pointed blade and/or blades longer than 6cm (round-ended, blunt scissors and knives less than 6cm are permitted)
- Hypodermic needles (unless required for medical reasons, for which proof will be required)
- Tools (including multi-tools and penknives)
- Catapults or slingshots
- Corkscrews
- Walking/hiking poles
- Toy/replica guns (metal or plastic)
- Sporting bats
- Darts
- Billiard, snooker or pool cues.
Prohibited items on the aircraft
For safety reasons, there are a number of items that cannot be taken on to any aircraft, so please do not pack them in any luggage (hand or hold):
- Flammable liquids and solids
- Oxidisers such as bleaching powders
- Organic peroxides
- Tear gas devices or any gas cylinders
- Infectious substances such as live virus materials
- Wet-cell car batteries
- Magnetrons
- Instruments containing mercury
- Instruments containing magnets
- Fireworks
- Non-safety matches
- Firelighters, lighter fuel, paints, thinners
- Poisons, arsenic, cyanide, weedkiller
- Radioactive materials, acids, corrosives, alkalis, caustic soda
- Creosote, quicklime, oiled paper
- Vehicle fuel system components which have contained fuel.
