Forbidden items and substances
For your safety, security and comfort carriage of the following items is forbidden on flights of
Smartwings Group.
1. Generally
a) Baggage and items that may threaten safety of the flight, security of persons and property as
well as baggage and items that might easily be damaged during the carriage, the package of
which is not suitable, or may menace passengers,
b) Items specified by regulations of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO),
International Air Transport Association (IATA) and regulations of the carrier as dangerous
goods,
c) Items forbidden for carriage acording to applicable law, directives or regulations of relevant
state,
d) Items in view of the carrier not suitable for carriage due to their weight, size or nature,
e) Segways a howerboards
f) MacBook Pro 15” devices sold between September 2015 and February 2017
g) Any kind of overheating or damaged batteries.
2. In the passenger cabin
The following items are forbidden both in the Airport Restricted Area and on board the aircraft:
a) Firearms and other weapons, any object capable, or appearing capable to expel projectiles or
causing injury, such as:
• All firearms (combat and sport - pistols, revolvers, rifles, shotguns, air pistols, rifles,
pellet guns, etc.)
• Replica and imitation firearms,
• Lighters shaped like a firearm,
• Component parts of firearms (excluding telescopic sighting devices and sights),
• Animal humane killers,
• Signal flare pistols,
• Starter pistols,
• Toy guns of all types,
• Ball bearing guns,
• Cross bows,
• Catapults,
• Harpoon and spear guns,
• Industrial bolt and nail guns,
• Stun or shocking devices, e.g. cattle prods, ballistic conducted energy weapons
(taser),
b) Pointed/edged weapons and sharp objects or their imitations that can cause injuries, such as:
• Axes and hatchets,
• Arrows and darts,
• Blades,
• Razors,
• Harpoons and spears,
• Ice axes and ice picks,
• Ice skates,
• Lockable or flick knives with blades of any length,
• Knives, both real and ceremonial knives with blades if the length of over 6 cm, made
of metal or any other material strong enough to be used as a potential weapon,
• Meat cleavers,
• Machetes,
• Open razors and blades (not safety or disposable razors with blades enclosed in
cartridge),
• Sabres, swords and swordsticks,
• Scalpels,
• Scissors of the length of blade of over 6 cm,
• Ski and walking/hiking poles,
• Tent pins,
• Throwing stars,
• Tradesman’s tools that have the potential to be used as a pointed or edged weapon,
e.g. drills and drill bits, box cutters, utility knives, all saws, screwdrivers, crowbars,
hammers, pliers, wrenches/spanners, blow torches,
• Other items not looking like weapons, with hidden blades,
c) Blunt instruments that can cause injury, such as:
• Baseball and softball bats,
• Billiard, snooker and pool cues,
• Clubs or batons — rigid or flexible — e.g. Billy clubs, blackjacks, night sticks and
batons,
• Cricket bats,
• Golf clubs,
• Hockey sticks,
• Lacrosse sticks,
• Kayak and canoe paddles,
• Skateboards,
• Fishing rodes,
• Martial arts equipment e.g. knuckledusters, clubs, coshes, rice flails, nunchucks,
kubatons, kubasaunts,
d) Explosives and flammable substances that can be dangerous to the passengers and crew or
the aircraft and property, such as:
• Ammunition,
• Blasting caps,
• Detonators and fuses,
• Explosives and explosive devices,
• Replica or imitation explosive material or devices,
• Mines and other explosive military stores,
• Grenades of all types,
• Gas and gas containers, e.g. butane, propane, acetylene, oxygen — in large volume,
• Fireworks, flares in any form and other pyrotechnics (including party poppers and toy
caps),
• Non-safety matches,
• Smoke generating canisters or cartridges,
• Flammable liquid fuel, e.g. petrol/gasoline, diesel, lighter fluid, alcohol, ethanol,
• Aerosol spray paint or equivalent,
• Turpentine and paint thinner,
• Alcoholic beverages exceeding 70% by volume,
e) Chemical and toxic substances that can be dangerous to passengers and crew or the aircraft
and property, such as:
• Acids and alkalis, e.g. spillable ‘wet’ batteries,
• Corrosive or bleaching substances, e.g. mercury, chlorine,
• Disabling or incapacitating sprays, e.g. mace, pepper spray, tear gas,
• Gel and incapacitating sprays,
• Radioactive material, e.g. medicinal or commercial isotopes,
• Poisons,
• Infectious or biological hazardous material, e.g. infected blood, bacteria and viruses,
• Material capable of spontaneous ignition or combustion,
f) Fire extinguishers
g) Liquids and items of similar consistency:
• liquid substances (gels, pastes, lotions, liquid / solid mixtures and the contents of the
containers under pressure, toothpastes, hair gels, beverages, soups, perfumes,
deodorants, shaving foams, aerosols and other items of similar consistency) except
for:
• liquids in individual containers with a volume of less than 100 milliliters
or equivalent placed in a transparent resealable plastic bag with a volume
of up to 1 liter,
• liquids that may be necessary for medical purposes or because of a
special diet, this also applies babies food,
• liquids purchased at airside beyond the boarding passes check point,
provided that the liquid is packed in a bag secured with seals allowing to
easily check if infringed, and containing a visible proof of purchase at that
airport on that same day,
• liquids purchased at an airport restricted area,
• liquids purchased on the same day at another Community airport, on
condition that the liquid is packed in a bag secured with seals allowing to
easily check if infringed, and containing a visible proof of purchase at the
airport restricted area,
• liquids purchased on board an aircraft of a Community air carrier, on
condition that the liquid is packed in a bag secured with seals allowing to
easily check if infringed, and containing a visible proof of purchase on the
same day on board the aircraft,
h) Replacement strings for musical instruments
i) Due to safety reasons the passenger also must not carry in the cabin of aircrat the following
items: knifes with all lengths of blades, knifes for opening letters, scissors in all sizes,
weapons and eventually toys or weapon immitations made of plastics or metal, sling-shots,
household eating utensils, blades and razor blades, mechanical tools, arrow keys, cork-
screws, syrettes with exclusion of health reasons, knitting-needles, sports bats and sticks,
snooker and billiard cues, metalic nailfiles and other articles considered by security service of
the airport as dangerous, and which may be misused to threaten security of passengers or
crew.
j) The items listed above to be found during the security search at the airport shall be
confiscated without compensation.
3. In checked-in baggage
The following items and substances are not allowed in or as the checked Baggage:
a) Any kind of explosives or flammable substances that pose a threat to the health of
passengers and crew or the safety of aircraft or property, such as:
• explosives and explosive devices, in particular detonators, fuses, grenades,
mines, bombs and rockets,
• grenade launchers and other items or equipment used to launch materials,
substances or explosive devices,
• all kinds of detonators and explosive substances,
• suitcases and bags equipped with a self-destructive elements, generating smoke
and smoke screens,
• powdered substances for the amateur production of pyrotechnic devices, such as
ammonium nitrate, sulfur, charcoal,
• training and fake grenades,
• dummy explosive devices,
• all kinds of flammable substances and materials, including magnesium, as well as
gasoline and methanol,
• components of fuel systems - containing fue,l
• alcohol of over 70 % (also prohibited in fuel tanks of vehicles),
• gases : propane , butane,
• all types of lighter fuel containers,
• fireworks and flares,
• spare batteries,
• electronic devices with lithium batteries,
b) Any kind of chemical or toxic substances which pose a threat to the health of passengers and
crew or the safety of aircraft or property, such as:
• poisons and toxic substances, or substances causing infectious diseases, including
mice and rats poison, infected blood,
• radioactive materials, including medical and industrial isotopes,
• incapacitating gas, gel, liquids launchers,
• incapacitating gas (such as tear gas) pistols and revolvers,
• incapacitating gas (such as tear gas) hand grenades,
• all objects containing irritants, incapacitating, stunning, or other used to attack
people,
• corrosive chemicals,
• corrosive materials, including mercury and batteries,
• containers with soda,
• paints and solvents,
• oxidizers and organic peroxides, including bleach and chemical car body repair
sets,
• cylinders with compressed gas (butane, propane) as well as travel gas cylinders
(can only be transported when emptied of any residual gas),
• oxygen tanks / underwater cutting torches (it is possible to transport empty
oxygen tanks or disconnected underwater cutting torches).
c) In the checked baggage the passenger must not carry fragile items such as parfumes, toilet
waters, dioptric and sun glasses, contact lenses, bottles, glasswares, porcelain, water pipe, or
fast destructible articles, pharmaceuticals, money, credit cards, valuable items and objects of
art, jewellery and presious metal articles, keys, securities, stock and shares or bonds,
commercial documents, passports or other ID documents, data carriers and electronic
devices including walkman, CD player, camera, movie camera, MP3, mobile phone, portable
computer, etc., including accessories. The carrier shall not be liable for a contingent loss or
destruction of the items mentioned above. (This paragraph shall not be applied for flights
to/from USA).
