What not to carry as cabin baggage on an Etihad flight
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Some items may not necessarily be treated in the same manner by other airlines or at certain airports. We accept no responsibility if certain airports/airlines do not allow carriage of one or more of these items.
The following items cannot be carried into the aircraft cabin but may be allowed as checked baggage:
Pointed weapons and sharp objects
Pointed weapons and sharp objects
- Axes and hatchets
- Arrows and darts
- Harpoons and spears
- Ice axes and ice picks
- Ice skates
- Lockable or flick knives with blades of any length
- Knives
- Meat cleavers
- Machetes
- Open razors and blades (excluding safety or disposable razors with blades enclosed in cartridge)
- Sabres, swords and swordsticks
- Scalpels
- Scissors with blades more than 6cm in length
- Ski and walking / hiking poles
- Throwing stars
- Tools that have the potential to be used as a pointed or edged weapon such as drills, drill bits, box cutters, utility knives, saws, screwdrivers, crowbars, hammers, pliers, wrenches, spanners, blow torches.
Blunt instruments
Blunt instruments
- Baseball and softball bats
- Clubs or batons
- Cricket bats
- Golf clubs
- Hockey sticks
- Lacrosse sticks
- Kayak and canoe paddles
- Skateboards
- Billiards, snooker and pool cues
- Fishing rods
- Martial arts equipment such as knuckle dusters, clubs, coshes, rice flails, nun chucks, kabatons, kubasaunts
Others
Others
- Inflated articles (inflated balls, balloons, etc. should be deflated)
Applicable to flights to the United States only
Applicable to flights to the United States only
Electronic devices and their accessories larger than 16cmx9.3cmx1.5cm. This includes laptops, tablets, e-readers, cameras, game-consoles, speakers, printers and other powered electronic items. All such items must be completely shut down or powered off and placed in your checked-in baggage at point of origin.
Under the new US regulation, battery packs, power-banks and spare batteries larger than 16cmx9.3cmx1.5cm are prohibited from both checked baggage and cabin baggage. We recommend our guests not to travel with these items, to prevent these being confiscated during the security screening.
E-cigarettes, e-pipes or other personal vaporizers must be placed into your cabin-baggage or on one's person, as these items are not allowed in your checked baggage. These devices must not exceed 16cmx9.3cmx1.5cm.