The thread about lighters makes me curious about an old topic: matches, stoves, etc., in checked baggage on airlines. In studying the official baggage exclusions published by airlines, I notice that they seem to be careful to exclude fuel and fuel-containing camping equipment, but not camping equipment per se, such as clean, dry, used backpacking stoves and open bottles. This would seem to be a continuation of historical practice and common sense. However, the same guidelines do exclude strike anywhere matches from the category of acceptable checked luggage. Has anyone had recent bad (or good) experiences with empty stoves/bottles or matches? Do people ignore the prohibition on strike-anywhere matches in their checked luggage? Tom *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Jun 08 2004 - 13:56:19 PDT
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