Traveling with lighters

Rather than hijack another thread with more posts on this topic, I'll start a new thread (which also may help with searching).

Flying from the US, one cigarette lighter may be carried on your person or in your carryon bag. No lighter containing fuel may be in checked baggage. If they are completely empty, lighters may be in checked bags. No fuel containers (either lighter fluid or propane) can be either carried on or in checked baggage.

Pocket torches, blue flame lighters, etc. are explicitly forbidden. I know some people who carry cigar lighters that would not be allowed under the regulations.

The FAA site says only one lighter may be carried on; the TSA site doesn't say only one (but who knows what rules they will enforce at any given time).

https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org...ghters_faq.pdf

https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-...ohibited-items

From Jamaica, my experience is that lighters are not allowed to be carried on. I don't know whether there are Jamaican regulations about lighters in checked baggage.

The FAA page references DOT regulations about hazardous materials. These regulations can be enforced at either end of your trip. If for some reason Customs searches your checked luggage on your return to the US and finds hazardous materials, you can be charged on arrival. So it's not just "whew, I made it onto the plane."

I know some people advocate bringing bunches of lighters as gifts. You may want to consider that there is apparently no legal way to do this. I'm pretty certain lighters are available for sale in Jamaica if you need them. :)

I brought about 10 lighters home as gifts 2 weeks ago. I had several in 2 checked bags, a few in my carry on and at least 1 in my purse. My checked bags were opened apparently as I had Delta zip ties on the zippers of my checked baggage. I thought my lighters may have been confiscated but they were all there. They used to ask if anybody had lighters in the security line but they haven't asked in a few years.

I usually show up with roughly 10 lighters each trip, and am lucky if I go home with one. On my preferred airline they only have a quantity limit if flying to Japan. I cannot speak for any other airline, but this is what AA advertises. I also just returned from Europe and passed thru security in London and Amsterdam and had no issues either.

https://www.aa.com/i18n/travelInform...restricted.jsp

Bring your lighters, in your carry on. No issues.

we sneak 1 lighter in my carry on, then the rest are in a suitcase, never a problem, soon come

Probably just the FAA and TSA don't know what they're talking about, then.

I wonder how it works when the security lines are run by TSA employees but your airline says they have different rules?

I bring BBQ lighters with me in the checked bags as well as regular lighters, in my purse just to see if i can get away with it never a problem , but once i had a half a tube of Rembrant toothpaste , and a half a jar of expensive face cream, and that was to much so i had to get rid of one, i just don't get it.

u can buy a lighter at L&M Market for $40J's......

Cool Runnings, Marko

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Originally Posted by jamaicarob

we sneak 1 lighter in my carry on, then the rest are in a suitcase, never a problem, soon come

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I don't think you are sneaking it, I am sure they see it during their scan. On our recent trip I got to security and realized I had a lighter on me. I showed the security person to hand it over and was told I was allowed 1. I don't remember but pretty sure it was at MoBay on the way home.

I always come with Zippo lighter, never had any problem.