Items that cannot be carried in carry-on baggages

Before you pack your bag or hand luggage, be aware of what you can’t carry in aircraft cabins.

Here are some examples of what you can’t carry in your hand luggage.

Weapons

Firearms, pressure guns, electric shock, or chemical weapons (including replicas or toy weapons), slingshots, pepper sprays, acids, or neutralizers.

Pointed or sharp objects

Axes, ice picks, stilettos, martial arts equipment, razors, knives, scissors, pocketknives, or multifunctional instruments with blades longer than 6 cm.

Work tools

Crowbars and similar levers, drills and drill bits (including portable and cordless), screwdrivers and chisels with a blade or shank longer than 6 cm, saws (including portable or cordless), blowtorches, hammers, sledgehammers, nail guns (and similar), alarm devices.

Explosive, incendiary, or flammable substances

Explosives, ammunition, fuses, detonators, fuses, mines, grenades or similar, fireworks, smoke-generating cartridges, dynamite, gunpowder, metal powders and similar, flammable liquids, aerosols, flammable gases, torch-type lighters, aerosol animal repellents.

Chemicals, toxins and other dangerous items

Chlorine, liquid bleach, batteries with spillable corrosive liquids, mercury, acids, poisons, infectious and radioactive materials.

Here are some examples of items that can be carried in hand luggage (according to the flight's security level). If in doubt, check with the airline in advance or avoid carrying them!

Corkscrews, pens, pencils and pencil sharpeners shorter than 15 cm, lighters with gas or fluid shorter than 8 cm, matches (one box with up to 40 units per passenger), walking sticks, tennis rackets, umbrellas and hammers used in medical examinations.

Here are some examples of items that cause doubts and can be carried in hand luggage.

Shaving razors in cartridges, objects with blades shorter than 6 cm (including pocketknives, nail clippers, blunt scissors, and tweezers), aerosols for medical use or personal hygiene (up to four bottles of no more than 300 ml or 300 g per passenger), thermometers, wristwatches with alarms, electronics allowed on board (check with the airline in advance). 

Important! On international flights, there is a restriction on transporting any liquids and gels that are in containers larger than 100 ml and the maximum limit of liquids to be transported must fit in a transparent plastic container of no more than 1 liter with an airtight closure (like a Ziplock). All liquids and gels must be packed in the plastic container in such a way as to facilitate inspection by the protection agent. Remember that liquids considered dangerous cannot access the restricted security areas, even in quantities of less than 100 ml.

* Medicines (with a doctor's prescription), baby food and liquids for special diets may be carried in the quantity necessary for use during the entire flight (including any stopovers) and must be presented at the time of the security inspection.

What can I carry? See the sample list of other items allowed (content in portuguese), according to the type of baggage.

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