What you can pack in your hold luggage for flights departing from Southampton:
Hold Baggage Banned Items
For safety reasons the following items cannot be taken on to an aircraft. Please do not pack them in any luggage (hand baggage or checked-in hold baggage).
- Ammunition
- Blasting Caps
- Bleaches
- Cigarette lighters including refills
- Corrosive materials
- Creosote, quicklime, oiled paper
- Detonators and Fuses
- Dynamite, gunpowder and plastic explosives
- Explosives and related equipment
- Fire lighters, lighter fuel, paints, thinners
- Fireworks and other pyrotechnics
- Flammable liquids and solids
- Infectious substances such as live virus materials
- Instruments containing magnets
- Instruments containing mercury
- Mace spray
- Magnetrons
- Mercury
- Mines, grenades, and other explosive military stores
- Non-safety matches
- Organic peroxides
- Oxidisers such as bleaching powders
- Oxidising materials
- Party Poppers
- Poisons, arsenic, cyanide, weedkiller
- Radioactive materials, acids, corrosives, alkalis, caustic soda
- Smoke-generating canisters and smoke-generating cartridges
- Tear gas devices or any gas cylinders
- Thinners and solvents
- Vehicle fuel system components which have contained fuel
- Wet-cell car batteries.
Packing Tips
To avoid bags becoming jammed on the conveyor belt, please ensure that:
- All loose straps are tied up or removed.
- All flaps are securely fastened.
- Extendable handles are retracted or secured.
- Old tags and barcodes are removed.
When deciding what to pack and what to carry as hand baggage, please bear the following in mind:
- Don’t wrap gifts. Security staff may wish to view them, and so may unwrap them.
- Consider putting a change of clothes, or at least underwear and a spare shirt, into your hand baggage. It can mean a little extra comfort at the end of a long-haul flight, or if hold baggage is delayed.
- Never carry anything on to an aircraft for anyone else.