For customers using London Heathrow Airport
 
The below items are prohibited.
List of prohibited articles
Checked baggage
In the checked baggage, passengers are not permitted to carry the following articles:
explosives and incendiary substances and devices - explosives and incendiary substances and devices capable, or appearing capable, of being used to cause serious injury or to pose a threat to the safety of aircraft, including:
- ammunition,
 
- blasting caps,
 
- detonators and fuses,
 
- mines, grenades and other explosive military stores,
 
- fireworks and other pyrotechnics,
 
- smoke-generating canisters and smoke-generating cartridges,
 
- dynamite, gunpowder and plastic explosives.
 
Carry-on baggage
Passengers are not permitted to carry the following articles into security restricted areas and on board of an aircraft:
- a)Guns, firearms and other devices that discharge projectiles - devices capable, or appearing capable, of being used to cause serious injury by discharging a projectile, including:
 
- firearms of all types, such as pistols, revolvers, rifles, shotguns,
 
- toy guns, replicas and imitation firearms capable of being mistaken for real weapons,
 
- component parts of firearms, excluding telescopic sight,
 
- compressed air and CO2 guns, such as pistols, pellet guns, rifles and ball bearing guns,
 
- signal flare pistols and starter pistols,
 
- bows, cross bows and arrows,
 
- harpoon guns and spear guns,
 
- slingshots and catapults;
 
- b)stunning devices - devices designed specifically to stun or immobilise, including:
 
- devices for shocking, such as stun guns, tasers and stun batons,
 
- animal stunners and animal killers,
 
- disabling and incapacitating chemicals, gases and sprays, such as mace, pepper sprays, capsicum sprays, tear gas, acid sprays and animal repellent sprays;
 
- c)objects with a sharp point or sharp edge - objects with a sharp point or sharp edge capable of being used to cause serious injury, including:
 
- items designed for chopping, such as axes, hatchets and cleavers,
 
- ice axes and ice picks,
 
- razor blades,
 
- box cutters,
 
- knives with blades of more than 6 cm,
 
- scissors with blades of more than 6 cm as measured from the fulcrum,
 
- martial arts equipment with a sharp point or sharp edge,
 
- swords and sabres;
 
- d)workmen's tools - tools capable of being used either to cause serious injury
or to threaten the safety of aircraft, including:
 
- crowbars,
 
- drills and drill bits, including cordless portable power drills,
 
- tools with a blade or a shaft of more than 6 cm capable of use as a weapon, such as screwdrivers and chisels,
 
- saws, including cordless portable power saws,
 
- blowtorches,
 
- bolt guns and nail guns;
 
- e)blunt instruments - objects capable of being used to cause serious injury when used to hit, including:
 
- baseball and softball bats,
 
- clubs and batons, such as billy clubs, blackjacks and night sticks,
 
- martial arts equipment;
 
- f)explosives and incendiary substances and devices - explosives and incendiary substances and devices capable, or appearing capable, of being used to cause serious injury or to pose a threat to the safety of aircraft, including:
 
- ammunition,
 
- blasting caps,
 
- detonators and fuses,
 
- replica or imitation explosive devices,
 
- mines, grenades and other explosive military stores,
 
- fireworks and other pyrotechnics,
 
- smoke-generating canisters and smoke-generating cartridges,
 
- dynamite, gunpowder and plastic explosives.