LIST: Items prohibited for hand-carry, checked-in baggages

The New NAIA Infra Corporation earlier assured the public that it will coordinate with the Office for Transportation Security (OTS) to provide a safe environment for passengers following the recent “tanim-bala” incident at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport.  

But what are the items that passengers are prohibited to bring with their hand-carry or checked-in baggage? 

List of prohibited items for hand-carry baggage:

• Air gun
• Compressed air gun
• Firearms and gun/and or its components/accessories
• Replicas and imitation firearms/toy gun
• Disguised firearms
• Paintball gun and its components and accessories
• Pellet gun/airsoft gun
• Rifles
• Flare gun
• Improvised firearms
• Rocket launcher
• Shoulder launched missile
• Mortars
• M79 grenade launcher
• Disabling and incapacitation chemicals, gasses, and spays
• All kinds of stun gun
• Electronic bug zapper
• Corrosive substances (e.g. mercury, ammonia, toilet cleaner, drain cleaner, and liquid bleach)
• Flammable materials
• Poisonous and infectious materials (e.g. rat poison, pesticides, viruses, bacteria, and clinical waste) 
• Oxidizing substances and organic peroxide 
• Radioactive materials except for medical purposes (e.g. uranium, plutonium, americium, radiography camera)
• Arrows, bows, crossbows, darts
• Axes, hatches, and cleavers
• Bayonet
• Bolos
• Box cutter 
• Butterfly knife (balisong)
• Canned product (with easy open lid)
• Cock fighting blade
• Cork screw
• Disguised objects with a sharp edge (e.g. credit card knife, buckle knife, pen knife, tactical pen)
• Fishing hook
• Harpoon guns and spear guns
• Ice pick
• Knife
• Letter/bottle opener
• Martial arts equipment with sharp points or edges
• Medical scalper
• nipper, pusher, nail file, nail cutter with multi-tools
• Open razor, razor blade
• Projectile capable and other similar devices
• Saber, sword
• Scissors (except small round-tip and bandage scissors)
• Bolt/nail gun
• Blow torches (empty)
• Crowbars
• Drills, drill bits (including portable power drills)
• Hammers
• Handcuff, Thumb cuffs
• Nails
• Pliers
• Saws (including cordless portable power saws)
• Screwdrivers
• Wrenches
• Air tanks as diving equipment (provided cylinders are empty)
• Anti-contact key chain
• Baton sticks, billy clubs, black jacks, kubatons
• Billiard sticks, pool cues
• Bowling, Billiard balls
• Club, sticks, bat, rods (e.g. cricket, golf, hockey, lacrosse)
• Dumbbells, hand weight
• Fishing rods
• Hoverboards and similar items (e.g. balance wheel, solo wheel, mini segway) 
• Ice skates, skateboards
• Industrial chains or all metal chain except jewelry
• Mortar and or pestles
• Paddles (e.g. boat, cricket, kayak, canoe)
• Ski poles, hiking poles
• Tennis, badminton, squash, paddle rackets
• Vehicle airbags
• Blasting cap
• CO2 cartridge and other compressed cylinders (e.g. party poopers, airbags, fire extinguishers, etc.)
• Detonators and fuses
• Dynamite
• Grenade
• Mines and other military stores
• Plastic explosives
• Pyrotechnics including fireworks
• Recreational oxygen non-medical required, flavored or canner oxygen containers
• Replicas of explosives and incendiaries
• Disguised lighter
• Flare
• Lighter fluid refills
• Lighter, torch, e-lighters (disposable and non-disposable)
• Matches (all types, including electronics match)
• Smoke generating canisters and its cartridges 

But the OTS announced last year that airline passengers can now bring extension cords and power strips in their carry-on luggage. Extension cords were previously required to be checked in when traveling by plane.

Further, the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) recently said that power banks exceeding 160Wh are strictly prohibited on flights. Power banks between 1000Wh and 160Wh require airline approval before these are carried onboard. 

List of prohibited items for checked-in baggage:

• Flare gun
• Improvised firearms
• Rocket launcher
• Shoulder launched missile
• Mortars
• M79 grenade launcher
• Disabling and incapacitation chemicals, gasses, and sprays
• Corrosive substances (e.g. mercury, ammonia, toilet cleaner, drain cleaner, and liquid bleach)
• Flammable materials
• Poisonous and infectious materials (e.g. rat poison, pesticides, viruses, bacteria, and clinical waste)
• Oxidizing substances and organic peroxide
• Radioactive materials except for medical purposes (e.g. uranium, plutonium, americium, radiography camera)
• Vehicle airbags
• Blasting cap
• CO2 cartridge and other compressed cylinders (e.g. party poopers, airbags, fire extinguishers, etc.)
• Detonators and fuses
• Dynamite
• Grenade
• Mines and other military stores
• Plastic explosives
• Pyrotechnics including fireworks
• Recreational oxygen non-medical required, flavored or canner oxygen containers
• Replicas of explosives and incendiaries
• Disguised lighter
• Flare
• Lighter fluid refills
• Lighter, torch, e-lighters (disposable and non-disposable)
• Matches (all types, including electronics match)
• Smoke generating canisters and its cartridges 

The Department of Transportation on Monday said that it has already fired three employees of the OTS allegedly involved in the “tanim-bala” scheme wherein a 69-year-old woman traveling to Vietnam with her family was accused of bringing an amulet with her in the form of a bullet casing. 

However, a physical inspection of the said bag did not find any bullet casing. — Vince Angelo Ferreras/BAP, GMA Integrated News