Nail Clippers

[VOS08]

Can you take nail clippers in your carry-on on the plane? I'm flying Continental, if that makes a difference.

[Cymro1953]

Can you take nail clippers in your carry-on on the plane? I'm flying Continental, if that makes a difference.

 

No, any sharp objects including Nail clippers/scissors will have to go in your suitcase in the hold

[greatam]

No, any sharp objects including Nail clippers/scissors will have to go in your suitcase in the hold

 

Wrong

 

Nail clippers have been allowed for years and even small scissors.

 

Check the TSA rules:

 

http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtravel/prohibited/permitted-prohibited-items.shtm

[6rugrats]

No, any sharp objects including Nail clippers/scissors will have to go in your suitcase in the hold

 

I note you are not from the US, so perhaps the rules are different flying out of the U.K? Though, I have done this lately and had nail clippers with no problem.

 

Any questions about what's allowed in the US can be answered by going to the link to the TSA that greatam provided.

[Globaliser]

I note you are not from the US, so perhaps the rules are different flying out of the U.K? Though, I have done this lately and had nail clippers with no problem.

Nail clippers are permitted in the UK as well.

 

In fact, the only place that I've had any problems with nail clippers in the last two or three years was Dubai, and that was only through the total incompetence of the screeners who couldn't find them. Once they'd seen them in the flesh, the clippers were fine to board.

[Cymro1953]

Wrong

 

Nail clippers have been allowed for years and even small scissors.

 

Check the TSA rules:

 

http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtravel/prohibited/permitted-prohibited-items.shtm

 

Hi

I just checked the Uk airport checklist and it says NO sharp objects in hand baggage. Unlike your TSA they make no exception even for short nail scissors. They won't even allow tweezers

[greatam]

Hi

I just checked the Uk airport checklist and it says NO sharp objects in hand baggage. Unlike your TSA they make no exception even for short nail scissors. They won't even allow tweezers

 

You can take nail clippers and certainly tweezers through the UK in your carry on. Globaliser lives in the UK, flies frequently and posts correct information. I fly through London enough to know the rules. And have NEVER had a problem with nail clippers or especially tweezers. In fact, I use zip ties 95% of the time to secure my luggage. The nail clippers are ALWAYS in the outside pocket of my carry on, so I can clip the ties off.

[Cymro1953]

You can take nail clippers and certainly tweezers through the UK in your carry on. Globaliser lives in the UK, flies frequently and posts correct information. I fly through London enough to know the rules. And have NEVER had a problem with nail clippers or especially tweezers. In fact, I use zip ties 95% of the time to secure my luggage. The nail clippers are ALWAYS in the outside pocket of my carry on, so I can clip the ties off.

 

The Info I got was off the Manchester airport security website about 2 minutes before posting.

http://www.manchesterairport.co.uk/manweb.nsf/Content/Departing

 

About halfway down the page under hold and hand luggage.

 

The British Department of Transport also has a list of prohibited items similar to the TSA icluding

scissors of more than 6cm in length. I think that's just over 2 inches.

But it also adds as restricted

Pointed or bladed articles capable of causing injury, including, but not limited to:

and then we have the list of sharps.

If anyone was determined they could do some damage with a scissors or blade less than that.

We always play safe and pack them in the hold luggage including the liquids.

My suitcase weighs a ton but it gives DW more room for her stuff

 

 

 

 

 

P.S. I'm in Uk also

[6rugrats]

Will this be one of those threads that goes on for pages and pages?

 

In the last couple of months, I have taken both nail clippers and tweezers in a carry on through LHR with no problem.

 

I have also had a tube of lipgloss (liquid), a metal tube of hand cream, two hotel shampoo bottles, and a container of hand sanitizer in my backpack I forgot, and didn't pack in my 1 quart bag.

 

No one said anything about them and they went through the scanners at SEA, SFO, DEN, ORD, PHL, MUC, FRA, IST and IAD. In the two airports in Germany, I didn't even need to remove my 1 quart bag of liquids. Sometimes, even if there are clearly stated rules, they aren't followed.

[VOS08]

You can take nail clippers and certainly tweezers through the UK in your carry on. Globaliser lives in the UK, flies frequently and posts correct information. I fly through London enough to know the rules. And have NEVER had a problem with nail clippers or especially tweezers. In fact, I use zip ties 95% of the time to secure my luggage. The nail clippers are ALWAYS in the outside pocket of my carry on, so I can clip the ties off.

 

That's exactly the reason I wanted to know. I'm planning on using zip ties and don't want to have to just pack the nail clippers on an outside pocket of my checked suitcases in case they get lost or stolen. So I'm glad to hear that I can carry them on. Thanks guys.

[pms4104]

No one said anything about them and they went through the scanners at SEA, SFO, DEN, ORD, PHL, MUC, FRA, IST and IAD. Sometimes, even if there are clearly stated rules, they aren't followed.

Love the uneven enforcement ... and the policies are to make us safer? More like some miind-bending smoke and mirrors to make us think we're safer.

[FlyerTalker]

Dear Cymro: Keep putting everything into a checked bag. No use trying to change your mind or your reading of a website.

 

For all of the the rest of you....take the clippers in the carry-on. Take it from those of us who fly and fly and fly.

 

Now, some places and screeners might possibly object if the clippers also have an attached file with a point. But the clippers themselves....

[Globaliser]

Unlike your TSA they make no exception even for short nail scissors.

Scissors with blades of less than 6 cm in length are expressly allowed. See the best source: the Department for Transport's actual regulations.

The Info I got was off the Manchester airport security website about 2 minutes before posting.

http://www.manchesterairport.co.uk/manweb.nsf/Content/Departing

That website does not accurately reflect what you are allowed to take on board. Certainly, if you follow that list, you won't get into trouble. It's probably been defensively drafted.

 

But there is no restriction on nail clippers either in the UK or in the US.

[Globaliser]

I'm planning on using zip ties and don't want to have to just pack the nail clippers on an outside pocket of my checked suitcases in case they get lost or stolen.

Anyway, nobody's going to steal nail clippers from a suitcase. And they only cost a dollar!

[Cymro1953]

Anyway, nobody's going to steal nail clippers from a suitcase. And they only cost a dollar!

 

Now i understand the whole point of the question. I couldn't work out why O.P. couldn't do their nails before travelling and pack the clippers :D.

 

You'd be surprised what they'll nick Globaliser. I work in a hospuital and they're forever taking the plugs from the washbasins.

[skf]

We use zip ties for our checked bags. We keep a nail clipper & small scissors in an outside pocket of a checked bag to remove the ties.

Steve

[Globaliser]

You'd be surprised what they'll nick Globaliser. I work in a hospuital and they're forever taking the plugs from the washbasins.

Isn't that because there's nothing else left to nick from a hospital? :D

 

At any rate, checked baggage can provide rich pickings for dishonest baggage handlers. You only need to look at some of the stuff that CC members say that they've packed into their checked baggage and has then gone missing. Why do people do it? But so long as they do, I can guarantee you that nail clippers won't be much of a target for the thieves!

[Cymro1953]

Isn't that because there's nothing else left to nick from a hospital? :D

 

!

 

I work on a surgical ward and we're usually too busy nicking stuff of the patients, appendix, gall bladders etc. :D

 

It's a right pain with all this stuff going into checked bags, we've got a great bag with pockets that holds all the stuff for washing, shampooing etc. Just zip open and hang on the back of the bathroom door.

Now it takes up weight and space in my suitcase.

 

Did you see the article a couple of days ago about the guy who opened the plane door over canada at 23,000 feet and jumped out? :eek: No ammount of security screening will take care of that

 

Berwyn

[skf]

I hope he didn't land in an inhabited area, or on a herd of caribou.

[Jade13]

Wrong

 

Nail clippers have been allowed for years and even small scissors.

 

Check the TSA rules:

 

http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtravel/prohibited/permitted-prohibited-items.shtm

 

 

I think a disposable razer blades is Ok as well, correct? We aren't planning on checking any luggage on our next 4 flights.

[Cymro1953]

I hope he didn't land in an inhabited area, or on a herd of caribou.

 

Here it is,

http://www.javno.com/en-world/man-leaps-from-plane-high-over-canadas-far-north_251714

[katz]

I am just learning and thought it would be a good activity to do on our long flight.

We are flying out of the U.S.

 

They aren't on the TSA list.

[Globaliser]

I think a disposable razer blades is Ok as well, correct?

Correct. All the modern cartridge-type razor blades are fine.

[CandCrew]

I am just learning and thought it would be a good activity to do on our long flight.

We are flying out of the U.S.

 

They aren't on the TSA list.

 

They weren't on the list so I Googled it. Click the link for knitting needles & carry ons. I personally wouldn't be bringing my 14" metal needles because that is just asking for them to be taken away.

 

Crochet hooks come in plastic (although I've broken so many of them at the "neck") and I'm sure if you look hard enough, you could find plastic ones too.

[tulch]

Love the uneven enforcement ... and the policies are to make us safer? More like some miind-bending smoke and mirrors to make us think we're safer.

 

Hon', it isn't that we don't see them on X-ray. And it isn't that we also can't identify the nature of the liquid in your containers from the X-ray. As a courtesy to you, you have not been pulled for a bag check, had your liquids pulled and escorted outside of the Checkpoint and asked to stand in line -- all over again -- and do it right.

 

In response to the original question, nail clippers are okay to bring. However, anything with a knife blade (no matter how small) remains prohibited. Some older nail clippers and/or manicure kits have small knives. (Ditto for corkscrews.) Check your nail clippers to make sure they do not have a knife.