GAC

Are nail clippers still being banned from carry-on items? Any experiences?

Tallulah

Why are you asking? Are you terrified of being parted from your nail clippers?

Sorry, I have no idea what the answer is, I'm just concerned that it's something you need to query. Why?!?!

ellenem

So GAC can pack them in checked luggage instead have losing them at a security check.

Sorry, GAC, I don't know the answer.

SeaUrchin

Hi GAC, the last time I flew which was about a month ago, I could take on nail clippers, but just the little contraption kind, not the scissors kind.

The girl took my tweezers out because they had a handle like scissors do, go to 99cent store and get a cheap contraption you won't mind losing.

Christina

They have not been banned for a long time, and never were banned for that long (and even in the beginning, I think that was not universal).

Kate_W

Take clippers that are just clippers without any other attachments (e.g. curved/pointy nail file, scissors etc) and you should be ok.

Travelnut

Straight from the horse's mouth:

http://www.tsa.gov/interweb/assetlib...12_18_2003.pdf

Huitres

That is a legitimate question given the heightened security over everything these days...my boss had his hair clippers/scissors removed from his toiletries bag 2 years ago. I have been fortunate the last 2 trips (UA/Lufthansa) to bring along standard nail clippers (the large size, with nail file attached) and they have not been taken. I usually put the nail clipper in a small plastic baggie along with my Q-tips. Last week on my return trip home from Italy, Lufthansa noticed them on the screen and asked me what it was and I told them. I didn't have to open the bag or remove them, but they did notice them! You should be fine bringing a pair along. If you feel more comfortable, tuck them in a pair of socks and put them in your suitcase (mine were in my purse, inside my toiletries bag there).

janeg

We bring them in our carry-on so that we can cut the wire ties that we use instead of locks.

Iregeo

Bad day, Tallulah?

topcat

http://www.tsa.gov/interweb/assetlib...12_18_2003.pdf

But, be aware that some airports STILL aren't using the current allowed/prohibited list (Newark for example), and will confiscate items that are NOT on the prohibited list.

topcat

Almost forgot, the latest list is:
http://www.tsa.gov/interweb/assetlib..._8_23_2004.pdf

m_kingdom2

Well... I accidentally had a large corkscrew (with knife for foil) in my carry on and no mention of it was made.

Incidentally, you can buy razor blade beyond security at all UK airports.

suze

janeg, you could put the clippers in an outer zipped pocket of your checked luggage (and don't put a cable tie on that pocket).

janeg

But we look so jaunty sprouting six fluorescent orange for me, fluorescent green for him wire ties, I hate to give any up.

hopscotch

Ten flights this year with nail clippers in carry-on all the way. Not a blink from TSA. I need the clippers to snip off the wire tires locking my checked piece, when I have one. I also slip a small knife in a side pocket of my checked piece, under the eyes of the TSA inspector.

Jenner

Someone I know took clippers in their carry-on and security snapped off the tiny attached nail file on them and then gave them back!

francophile03

Yep, me too, I put the nail clippers in my backpack carryon and had no problems. I needed it to snip off the cable ties from my luggage when I arrived in Paris.

Gretchen

I have a very expensive (very good) set of nail clippers--very short blades but very pointy. I had left them in my pocketbook by mistake. They saw them and conferred about them--all the while me BEGging them not to take them. They were allowed. That was about 2 years ago now.

Sue_xx_yy

If you mean the type of nail clipper that looks somewhat like a steel clothes peg with a rather blunt, nail-shaped cutting edge, these will probably pass.

If you mean small nail scissors, I accidentally left mine in on the return flight VIE - LHR; security missed them, and then unfortunately I still forgot to repack them in my checked bag. So when the time came to leave London they were confiscated at LHR. The scissors weren't an expensive item but I was embarrassed for having put security through the time and trouble of removing them.

Apparently they've now got thousands of pairs. LHR workers must have the best manicured nails on the planet.