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
- 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
- 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
- Inflated articles (inflated balls, balloons, etc. should be deflated)