Soi33 Posted March 1, 2005 Share Posted March 1, 2005 This is all over the U.S. News. Beginning April 14, 2005 ALL cig lighters will be banned on commercial flights. Lighters are not allowed in checked or carry-on luggage. No disposable lighters, Zippo's etc. In their infinate wisdom they will allow you to carry FOUR books of matches though! Amazing thought process! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEAtramp Posted March 1, 2005 Share Posted March 1, 2005 Thats a real blow. I'm going to miss playing with my zippo for 11 hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ajarn Posted March 1, 2005 Share Posted March 1, 2005 They should have a depository at each airport for departing passengers to deposit their lighters, and allow arriving passengers to pick up a replacement for the lighter they had to give up earlier ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penzman Posted March 1, 2005 Share Posted March 1, 2005 Great idea but you'll find there will only be pink ones left to chose from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soi33 Posted March 1, 2005 Author Share Posted March 1, 2005 Great idea but you'll find there will only be pink ones left to chose from. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'll take a "pink one" after 10-15 hours! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter991 Posted March 1, 2005 Share Posted March 1, 2005 Flew Perth (Australia) to Brunei then BKK 12 Feb with Royal Brunei Air and the returned same 28 Feb. My disposable lighter was confiscated at Brunei Airport on the way home. Told the "No Lighters" policy started 27 Feb there. Not amused! I will never travel Royal Brunei Air again - that's another story and I will post the reasons in 48 hours under the Travel Section if I do not get a satisfactory answer from their manager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thaiaan Posted March 1, 2005 Share Posted March 1, 2005 Flew Perth (Australia) to Brunei then BKK 12 Feb with Royal Brunei Air and the returned same 28 Feb. My disposable lighter was confiscated at Brunei Airport on the way home. Told the "No Lighters" policy started 27 Feb there. Not amused! I will never travel Royal Brunei Air again - that's another story and I will post the reasons in 48 hours under the Travel Section if I do not get a satisfactory answer from their manager. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> All that over a disposable lighter worth a few pennies?Seems rather overboard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penzman Posted March 1, 2005 Share Posted March 1, 2005 you can always carry one of these. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdnvic Posted March 1, 2005 Share Posted March 1, 2005 Wasn't Richard Reid (The failed shoe bomber) trying to use matches stuck into his shoes as fuses when he was caught? cv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
booma Posted March 1, 2005 Share Posted March 1, 2005 More airline logic. Kuwait airways took two of my five lighters, I know five lighters is a bit excessive (they had amassed themselves in my hotel room), but why take only two, how many lighters can I light at one time, or did they expect me to distribute them amongst my fellow terrorists once airborne. They even left my the ones with the most gas in. B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_Pat_Pong Posted March 1, 2005 Share Posted March 1, 2005 Wasn't Richard Reid (The failed shoe bomber) trying to use matches stuck into his shoes as fuses when he was caught? cv <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Security had confiscated his Zippo at check-in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobra Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 This is all over the U.S. News.Beginning April 14, 2005 ALL cig lighters will be banned on commercial flights. Lighters are not allowed in checked or carry-on luggage. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> This will be interesting, who doesn't occasional bring back a few novelty lighters in their checked baggage. We'll see how various carriers screen for this ... either posted placard or yet another addition to the verbal check-in questionnaire. But more importantly, the impact to the novelty lighter industry, then again, not being bothered while I drink my beer could be a welcome change, but you gotta love a dancing cutie lighter ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devildog683 Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 This is all over the U.S. News.Beginning April 14, 2005 ALL cig lighters will be banned on commercial flights. Lighters are not allowed in checked or carry-on luggage. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> This will be interesting, who doesn't occasional bring back a few novelty lighters in their checked baggage. We'll see how various carriers screen for this ... either posted placard or yet another addition to the verbal check-in questionnaire. But more importantly, the impact to the novelty lighter industry, then again, not being bothered while I drink my beer could be a welcome change, but you gotta love a dancing cutie lighter ... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> i guess you can always mail them to yourself....... what will they ban next, i wear glasses, the stems could be used as weapons, maybe they'll ban them soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buadhai Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 what will they ban next, i wear glasses, the stems could be used as weapons, maybe they'll ban them soon <{POST_SNAPBACK}> How about that duty free bottle of scotch? I always thought that would make an excellent weapon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdnvic Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 How about that duty free bottle of scotch? I always thought that would make an excellent weapon! They're definitly responsible for more than a few vacation casualties. cv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penzman Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 Last year, a friend of mine bought a box full of lighters in BKK. They looked like miniature hand grenades. All confiscated at departure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
booma Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 This is all over the U.S. News.Beginning April 14, 2005 ALL cig lighters will be banned on commercial flights. Lighters are not allowed in checked or carry-on luggage. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> This will be interesting, who doesn't occasional bring back a few novelty lighters in their checked baggage. We'll see how various carriers screen for this ... either posted placard or yet another addition to the verbal check-in questionnaire. But more importantly, the impact to the novelty lighter industry, then again, not being bothered while I drink my beer could be a welcome change, but you gotta love a dancing cutie lighter ... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Don't you already need a special license to fly home with those over-sized Zippo's they sell down the KSR etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insight Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 One experience at Bombay airport - what a great place. They were confiscating everybodys lighters before walking through the metal detectors. I had 5 in my pocket, so shoved them into my hand luggage beforehand. That went through the x-ray and was then given to me, lighters included. There's logic in there somewhere... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shola Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 Oh well, bad news for the peddlers who stroll up and down the beaches selling those flashing/musical novelty lighters. My Bro came over a year or so ago and bought 3 from one guy! No trouble getting them home though! I'm pretty sure a terrorist could do just as much damage with 4 books of matches as a disposable lighter, although he may just become more irritated when trying to light the fuse! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lampard10 Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 They should have a depository at each airport for departing passengers to deposit their lighters, and allow arriving passengers to pick up a replacement for the lighter they had to give up earlier ... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Surely you mean SUPPOSITARY to stop these idiotic rule makers talking out their <deleted> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuky Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 So, whats the problem with them in your checked baggage? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlthailand Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 Great idea but you'll find there will only be pink ones left to chose from. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'll take a "pink one" after 10-15 hours! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'll take a pink one straight up. Least you'll know that no-ones gonna pinch at a bar or party. Nomad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toastwars Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 Great idea but you'll find there will only be pink ones left to chose from. I'll take a "pink one" after 10-15 hours! I'll take a pink one straight up. Least you'll know that no-ones gonna pinch at a bar or party. Nomad That all depends on what sort of partys you go to surely!...pass the rubber hose and the warm saline solution. Ohh er... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tutsiwarrior Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 in 1993 on a return flight on Air China from Harbin to Beijing I forgot the prohibition on lighters and when frisked by the grim faced People's Army operative prior to boarding one was discovered. I was taken aside and surrounded by menacing thugs and I believed that I faced an on the spot strip search. They settled by hissing in a threatening way, searched my belongings, scrutinized my passport and then flung it back at me in a most disrespectful manner. They were not nice at all...and they hurt my feelings... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_Pat_Pong Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 in 1993 on a return flight on Air China from Harbin to Beijing I forgot the prohibition on lighters and when frisked by the grim faced People's Army operative prior to boarding one was discovered. I was taken aside and surrounded by menacing thugs and I believed that I faced an on the spot strip search. They settled by hissing in a threatening way, searched my belongings, scrutinized my passport and then flung it back at me in a most disrespectful manner.They were not nice at all...and they hurt my feelings... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Awwwwwwwwww jeez Tutsi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlthailand Posted March 3, 2005 Share Posted March 3, 2005 I'll take a pink one straight up. Least you'll know that no-ones gonna pinch at a bar or party. Nomad <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That all depends on what sort of partys you go to surely!...pass the rubber hose and the warm saline solution. Ohh er... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Your parties perhaps. Surely, they'd be more brown in colour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobra Posted March 3, 2005 Share Posted March 3, 2005 So, whats the problem with them in your checked baggage? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Supposedly a lighter (pressurized LP type) at altitude could leak, creating a fire hazard in the cargo hold, a lot of this was brought on by the Value Air crash over the Florida everglades due to leaking O2 canisters in the cargo hold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
britmaveric Posted March 3, 2005 Share Posted March 3, 2005 Stick a lighter in your diddy bag and place it checked luggage. I dont smoke, but I've stuck some kewl lighters in there in order to give away as gifts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lampard10 Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 Due to the definately suspect saftey record of these flimsy street bought lighters,I would say that having one on ones person is the safest way to carry them. Stashing a hoard of them in luggage is insane. If they do go up,which is a distinct possibility there is no-one there to put the fire out. That is almost as bad as people who sneak to the toilets on board for a quick fag ( cigarette to the ami's),although now-a-days the inflammable fluid used in flight toilets is being phased out. I wouldn't like to throw my butt down a toilet that still has racasan in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyros Posted March 6, 2005 Share Posted March 6, 2005 I'm still going through the customs with all my lighters , in the checked luggage . Maybe i'll carry 2 in handluggage , depends on how many i have with me , and the types . It is a pretty stupid thing to ban lighters for suspicious acts on a airplane . Just like the nail clippers being banned ... who are you going to kill with that ???? I got keys which are charper ... Not to forget that if you really have bad intentions , you can always buy bottles in tax free or on the airplane itself where you can smash the bottom off ... that is a pretty dangerous weapon .... Noooo , i'm a terrorist bringing in a nail clipper and 2 cigarette lighters .... how stupid can you get . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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