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That seems very odd that they would take a lighter. Mind you I've been on very few domestic US flights, and on a few flights in/out of the US, but I never had p
by iamtew 12y ago
That seems very odd that they would take a lighter. Mind you I've been on very few domestic US flights, and on a few flights in/out of the US, but I never had problems with lighters. I just drop it on the plate they send through the X-ray and pick it up afterwards, no issues.
This was within the last 4 years though, maybe procedures have changed?
Here in EU I've never had any problems either.
The only thing that I know they frown upon is Zippo lighters, unless it's brand new and still sealed. Something about the petrol being used in those lighters they don't like.
- MeinCrapf 12y agoThey started allowing lighters again 7 years ago.
- jo_ 12y agoSome lighters. Regular ones are okay, I think, but I had my butane torch confiscated last May in San Francisco. I'd been carrying it around for three or four years and had never been stopped. I've also brought a swiss army knife on numerous flights, pretty much always by accident.