Baggage? No Problem!

For your comfort, for your safety. In order to guarantee quick and comfortable authority controls and the safety of your flight, we ask you to follow international air transport regulations that prohibit the carriage of certain objects, either in carry-on or checked baggage. We appreciate your strict adherence to the regulations in effect. We thank you for precious collaboration.

Carry-On Baggage

The latest EU security regulations and hand baggage rules were adopted for Switzerland by the Swiss Federal Office for Civilian Aviation and apply to all passengers departing from an airport in the EU or Switzerland.

Liquids on board

The new regulations state that only bottles, jars, and tubes with no more than 100ml of liquid, gel or toothpaste etc. can be carried in hand luggage.
Several 100 ml packages can be carried in a transparent plastic closable bag holding up to 1 liter.

The bag must be shown separately to security staff. Other liquids can only be carried in checked-in luggage. For technical safety reasons they must not be over 2 liters in content.

Other regulations:

Laptop computers and other large electronic devices must be put through the scanners separately. During the security controls passengers should remove coats and jackets.

Prohibited objects in carry-on baggage For safety reasons, certain items may not be carried in your hand baggage.

a) Guns, firearms and other instruments that shoot projectiles – instruments capable, or potentially capable to cause serious injury by shooting a projectile, including:

• any kind of firearms, guns, revolvers, rifles, shotguns,
• toy weapons, reproduction and imitation of firearms that can be mistaken for real weapons,
• components of firearms, excluding telescopic sights for fitting,
• air-guns or carbon dioxide weapons, such as pellet guns, rifles and ball bearing guns,
• rocket launcher, starter pistols
• bows, crossbows and arrows,
• harpoon and spear guns,
• slings and catapults;

b) Stun devices - devices designed specifically to stun or immobilize:

• Neutralizing devices such as stun guns, paralyze gun and electric shock batons,
• Tools to stun and suppress animals,
• Chemicals, gases and spray substances causing disabling or incapacitating effects, as a spray, tear gas, acids and repellents for animals;

c) Objects with a sharp point or sharp edge – objects with a sharp point or sharp edge that can cause serious injury, including:

• edged weapons: axes, hatchets and cleavers,
• ice axes and ice picks,
• razor blades,
• cutters,
• knives, no matter the length of the blade,
• scissors;
• martial arts equipment with a sharp point or sharp edge,
• swords and sabers;

d) Working tools – -tools that cause serious injury or to threaten the safety of aircraft, including:

• crowbars,
• drilling and related points, including wireless mobile electric drills
• tools with blades longer than 6 cm or tips that can be used as weapons, as screwdrivers and chisels,
• saws, including mobile wireless mobile electric saws
• welders,
• gun with darts and nail guns;

e) blunt instruments - objects that can be used to cause serious injury when used to strike, including:

• Baseball and softball bats,
• Clubs and sticks as billy clubs and blackjacks,
• Martial arts equipments;

f) explosives and incendiary devices and substances - substances and explosives and incendiary devices capable, or potentially capable to cause serious injury or to threaten the safety of aircraft, including:

• ammunition,
• detonators and primers,
• detonators and fuses,
• replication or imitation explosive devices,
• mines, grenades and other explosive military stores,
• fireworks and other pyrotechnic articles,
• smoke canisters and cartridges,
• dynamite, gunpowder and plastic explosives.

Note: This list is not exhaustive

Prohibited items in the carry-on baggage

substances and explosive devices and incendiary - and incendiary and explosive devices capable, or appearing capable, of being used to cause serious injury or to threaten the safety of aircraft, including:

• ammunition,
• detonators and primers,
• detonators and fuses,
• mines, grenades and other explosive military stores,
• fireworks and other pyrotechnic articles,
• smoke canisters and cartridges,
• dynamite, gunpowder and plastic explosives.

Security checks at the airport will confiscate any object considered dangerous. Darwin Airline is not responsible for confiscated items. The above dispositions also are applied also to objects purchased at the airport.

Objects prohibited in general

More information:
- ENAC - National Civil Aviation Authority
- TSA - Transport Security Administration
- FOCA - Federal Office of Civil Aviation
- DGAC – Direction Générale de l’Aviation Civile