UKC

As the title.. wanting to take a medium sized board onto a flight, only taking hand luggage so no option of putting it in the haul. Wondering if they are going to refuse this? I'm taking a laptop on as well so thinking if they use the reason of it being a weapon then a laptop would be of similar?

In reply to Paul Crusher R:
When I was taking something Via Heathrow, I facebooked heathrow with a picture and told exactly what it was, and about an hour or two later someone facebooked back it was okay, I printed that out and took with me for any issues, but it was fine. i assume all airports will have a Social Media person who deals with stuff like this.

In reply to Paul Crusher R:

I saw the thread title and thought to myself that if a fingerboard had the wherewithal to actually book a flight then I for one would not object to it having hand luggage with it.

Then I read the post

If the board will fit in your hand luggage and the luggage will meet the size requirements of the airline concerned I don't see a problem.

In reply to Paul Crusher R:

I did this last year flying within the UK. I explained what it was to the security staff, who then told the person watching the Xray and got it back the other side. No problem. I have also taken some quite large plastic holds on as hand luggage in my bag and just tell them in advance in the same way. usually they have been fine. best advice is to smile and show them/tell them and be prepared for them to send you back to check it in as hold luggage. The issue I've had most is with Boot Bananas... that's somehow harder to explain.

In reply to Paul Crusher R:

No problem at all; people hand-carry pictures and posters so why would this be different?

In reply to Paul Crusher R:

Put it in a baguette and tell them it's a Lancashire Ploughman's.

In reply to Paul Crusher R:

The only issue I can see is the weight, my fingerboard (although admittedly quite a large one, ahem) is ridiculously heavy and easily more than you can take in your hand luggage.