Prohibited items and dangerous goods

The following items are prohibited in cabin baggage:

  • firearms of all types, such as pistols, revolvers, rifles and shotguns,

  • toy guns, replicas and imitation firearms capable of being mistaken for real weapons,

  • component parts of firearms, excluding telescopic sights,

  • 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.

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:

  • 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, tear gas, acid sprays and animal repellent sprays.

Stunning devices - devices designed specifically to stun or immobilise, 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.

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:

  • crowbars,

  • drills and drill bits, including cordless portable power drills,

  • tools with a blade or a shaft of more than 6 cm and capable of being used as a weapon, such as screwdrivers and chisels,

  • saws, including cordless portable power saws,

  • blowtorches,

  • bolt guns and nail guns.

Workmen's tools - tools capable of being used either to cause serious injury or to threaten the safety of aircraft, including:

  • baseball and softball bats,

  • clubs and batons, such as clubs, blackjacks and night sticks,

  • martial arts equipment.

Blunt instruments - objects capable of being used to cause serious injury when used to hit, 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.

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:

  • airwheel
  • solowheel
  • hoverboard
  • mini-segway
  • balance wheel, etc.

Small lithium battery-powered vehicle:

The following items are prohibited in checked baggage:

In the interests of safety, your baggage may be checked by the Security Services, for whose actions and the outcomes of those actions the carrier is not responsible, in accordance with the General Conditions of Transport.

  • ammunition,

  • blasting caps,

  • detonators and fuses,

  • stores,

  • fireworks and other pyrotechnics,

  • smoke-generating canisters and smoke-generating cartridges,

  • dynamite, gunpowder and plastic explosives - mines, grenades and other explosive military,

  • electronic cigarettes (including e-cigars, e-pipes, other personal vaporisers) containing batteries

  • airwheel, solowheel, hoverboard, mini-segway, balance wheel.

Passengers are not permitted to carry the following articles in their hold baggage:

A list of selected hazardous materials that passengers are permitted to carry in either hand or checked baggage:

  • Heat generating devices, such as underwater torches (diving lamps) and soldering irons.

  • Dry ice in quantities not exceeding 2.5 kg (5 lb) per person if it has been used for the protection of perishable goods in hand luggage that are not subject to these requirements, provided that the packaging allows for the emission of carbon dioxide. Dry ice in checked baggage requires the consent of the airline, and every item of checked-in baggage must be marked "dry ice" or "carbon dioxide, solid" with the net quantity of dry ice given or with an indication that inside there is 2.5 kg or less of dry ice.

  • Cool containers containing cooled liquid nitrogen, fully absorbed in the porous material and used for transport at low temperatures of safe goods not subject to the relevant provisions, provided that the structure of the cool container does not produce excessive pressure inside the container and does not permit the release of cooled liquid nitrogen irrespective of the manner of container placement.

  • Inflammable gas cylinders, installed in a life jacket, containing carbon dioxide or other suitable gas up to two (2) small cylinders per passenger and up to (2) two spare cylinders.

  • Oxygen or air, gaseous state, small cylinders for medical applications. The cylinder must not exceed 5 kg of gross weight. Note: Liquid oxygen systems are prohibited in air transport.

  • Non-radioactive medical goods and toiletries (including aerosols) such as hair sprays, perfume, cologne and medical goods containing alcohol. The total net weight of the above-mentioned articles must not exceed 2 kg (4.4 lb) or 2 l (2qt), and the net weight of a single article must not exceed 0.5 kg (1lb) or 0.5 l (1pt). Drain valves in aerosols must be protected by a cap or other suitable mechanism that protects against unintentional outflow of the content.

  • Alcoholic beverages, if packed individually and containing more than 24% but not more than 70% of alcohol by volume, in vessels of no more than 5 l, with the net amount of 5 l per person.

  • Cylinders with inflammable, non-toxic gas used to operate artificial limbs. Also, spare cylinders of similar size, if the declared number is required during the trip.

  • Consumer electronic devices containing lithium or lithium-ion batteries, such as watches, calculators, cameras, mobile phones, laptops, camcorders, etc., if they are carried by the passengers or crew members for their personal use.

  • One (1) medical or clinical thermometer containing mercury is allowed per passenger for personal use, provided that it is carried in a protective case.

 

NOTICE: The carrier may refuse to accept checked baggage if it is not packed in a manner that guarantees safe carriage when handled with the exercise of an ordinary level of diligence. Nordica recommends precise labelling of baggage with an address tag or label. The carrier does not take responsibility for easily crushed or spoiled items, nor for cash, jewellery or other valuables, documents, commercial samples, etc. The carriage of these items takes place exclusively at the passenger's own risk and responsibility.