Air Malta Security Prohibited Items List

 

 

Passengers and Cabin Baggage

 

List of Prohibited Articles on person or in hand baggage

Without prejudice to applicable safety rules, passengers are not permitted to carry the following articles into security restricted areas and on board an aircraft:

(a)   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: 

• firearms of all types, such as pistols, revolvers, rifles, 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.

(b)   stunning devices—devices designed specifically to stun or immobilise, 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, capsicum sprays, tear gas, acid sprays and animal repellent sprays.

(c)    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:

• 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.

 

(d)   workmen's tools—tools capable of being used either to cause serious injury or to threaten the safety of aircraft, including:

• crowbars;
• drills and drill bits, including cordless portable power drills;
• tools with a blade or a shaft of more than 6 cm capable of use as a weapon, such as screwdrivers and chisels;
• saws, including cordless portable power saws;
• blowtorches;
• bolt guns and nail guns.

 

 

(e)   blunt instruments—objects capable of being used to cause serious injury when used to hit, including:

• baseball and softball bats;
• clubs and batons, such as billy clubs, blackjacks and night sticks;
• martial arts equipment. 

(f)     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:

• ammunition;
• blasting caps;
• detonators and fuses;
• replica or imitation explosive devices;
• mines, grenades and other explosive military stores;
• fireworks and other pyrotechnics;
• Christmas crackers
• smoke-generating canisters and smoke-generating cartridges;
• dynamite, gunpowder and plastic explosives.

 

 

(g)  Liquids, Aerosols and Gels (LAGs) - LAGs shall include pastes, lotions, liquid/solid mixtures and the contents of pressurized containers, such as toothpaste, hair gel, drinks, soups, syrups, perfume, shaving foam and other items with similar consistencies. This applies to containers exceeding 100 ml per container. 

 

(h) Air Malta also prohibits any other article, which in the reasonable contemplation of the security screener or aircraft operator, might be used or adapted for causing injury or incapacitation of a person.

 

Hold Baggage

 

(a)   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:

• 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.

 

Air Malta also prohibits any other article, which in the reasonable contemplation of the security screener or aircraft operator, might be used or adapted for causing injury or incapacitation of a person.

 (b)   Air Malta also prohibits any other article, which in the reasonable contemplation of the security screener or aircraft operator, might be used or adapted for causing injury or incapacitation of a person.