Lighters/Matches in the airport.....

I am reading conflicting items in regards to having lighters and/or matches beyond security checkpoints....does anyone have any recent experience with this? What are the actual rules? One sight I look at says you can take them in your carry-on but not in your checked baggage, another says just the opposite. Does this mean that once you get past security, you will no longer be able to smoke? It lists matches too......

Lighters/Matches in the airport.....

You can bring 2 lighters and 4 matchbooks on carryon only..they are not allowed in checked bags..

Lighters/Matches in the airport.....

pj

I have contacted both my airline and the TSA on this subjuct and the law currently is absolutley no lighters, carry-on or checked. Safety matches (those that cannot be struck on any surface) are legal carry on. You are allowed up to four books so you can smoke up to 80 of those puppys in the time between security and take-off. In the smoking area of course. A suggestion from a friend is to keep the smokes and the matches in your pocket and noone will even blink. Also if you should get patted down and they say you cant have them dont argue. Thats one fight you wont win. Just get a lite from someone else who made it in. Hope all this helps.

Fred

Just checked the TSA list of prohibited items. All lighters have been added to it. The ban is currently in effect, but a grace period runs until April 14. After that, no lighters beyound security. 4 books of matches are still allowed. Reference is www.tsa.gov.

luvbichons

Dont mean to argue but the law regarding lighters changed this month. I have heard there wont be strict enforcement for a while but why get them excited? Matches work just as well and a Bic is buck something. If you take a nice lighter and they confiscate it, you just saw that lighter for the last time.

Matt

HMMMMM...conflicting answers here too. Now I am really confused.

Nsane,

ALL lighters are Banned EVEN FROM YOUR CARRY-ON....my husband smokes cigars and his lighter (Bic disposable) is now the property of TSA.

I read both lighters and matches were prohibited. I just want a way to light our cigarettes after security whether it be matches or a lighter.

oops sorry nsane,

America West website had a link to TSA and that what it said...unless I missed something....sorry if I got you all excited...

I just found (on the website of my airport - Milwaukee) that you ARE allowed up to 4 books of matches past security. Is this nationwide....how about McCarren?

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