Hand baggage
What can you bring into the cabin? From size and weight limits to prohibited items and transporting liquids, find out all you need to know to prepare your hand baggage.
Some goods present a risk to your security and that of other passengers. Check the information below before placing them in your baggage.
Prohibited goods
For your security, some items are strictly prohibited on board. They will be confiscated at baggage control.
- Knives and any similar items.
- Firearms.
- Hunting weapon cartridges and other ammunition.
- Ink cartridges weighing over 453 g / 1 lb on flights departing to or from the United States.
- Perfume bottles over 100 ml /3.4 fl. oz.
- Cosmetic aerosol containers over 100 ml /3.4 fl. oz.
- Cigarette lighters fluid.
- Electrolyte batteries.
- Fireworks, firecrackers, signal flares, cap or toy guns, firelighters, tear gas.
- Camp stoves, gas canisters, scuba oxygen tanks.
- Paints, varnishes, lacquers.
- Toxic, infectious, and radioactive materials.
- Chemical products, fertilizers, weed killers, pesticides, insecticides.
- Strippers, bleach, chlorine, cleaning products.
- Inflammable liquids like fuel, thinners, solvents, and acetones.
- Mercury thermometers and barometers.
- Fireworks.
- Gas.
- Corrosive and toxic liquids.
- Poison.
- Flammable articles.
- Animal-based products: the air transport (cabin, hold, or freight) of any kind of meat from wild animals is strictly prohibited in the European Union. Passengers violating this prohibition may face criminal charges*. More information on the
* Conforming to article L237-3 of the French rural and maritime fishing code.
Regulated goods
The products listed below are permitted in the cabin, but are subject to specific regulations (non-exhaustive list).
Animal-based products
Importing certain animal-based products into European Union (EU) countries is subject to prohibitions and highly strict regulations due to the risk of introducing diseases. Undeclared transport of these products is punishable by fine or criminal prosecution*.
More information on the European Union portal
* Conforming to article L237-3 of the French rural and maritime fishing code.