At 03:55 PM 6/8/2004 -0500, Joyce, Thomas F. wrote: >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. I've got a nice gas stove that I've used many times for backpacking and local paddling trips. When I flew to Florida last year for the Sweetwater symposium I checked the regulations and it seemed fairly strict. Basically, if the baggage checker decides to check the stove out and decides he smells gas in it he can refuse to let me bring it on the plane. Even if it were a brand new gas stove I'd still have to buy gas for it after I arrived at my destination. For trips involving air travel I now have a small stove that screws onto a can of propane. I've also got a small propane backpacking lantern. I think that stove was about $10 and the lantern around $20. Many hardware stores or even the most understocked outdoor gear store sells propane. >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? I ignored it because I didn't know about it. John Fereira jaf30_at_cornell.edu Ithaca, NY *************************************************************************** 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 Wed Jun 09 2004 - 06:53:12 PDT
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