Re: [Paddlewise] Flares on Planes (was BYO)

From: <F.SOETHE_at_oln.comlink.apc.org>
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 05:57:33 +0000
> Ralf Diaz wrote:

> I also recommend that you bring your own emergency kit, sans 
> flares of course since you can't fly with them.

Hi Ralf,

We have just come back from 4 weeks paddling in the Caribbean 
(Islands of St.Lucia and Dominica) and found that it is no problem 
to take emergency flares on international flights. 

They won't let you take them in your hand luggage, but let us pack 
them in our checked luggage without problems. (I know that the 
conditions on the back of every ticket say something else, but 
this is what we found). 

And while we are at it: They would not let us take the CO2 for our 
life jackets anywhere, we had to leave them behind.

Btw. we were flying Deutsche Lufthansa's charter-carrier Condor.

Ferdinand
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