Without prejudice to applicable safety rules, passengers are not permitted to carry the following articles into security restricted areas and on board an aircraft:

a) guns, firearms and other devices that discharge projectiles, devices capable or appearing capable of being used to cause serious injury by discharging a projectile, including:

– Firearms of all types, such as pistols, revolvers, rifles, shotguns,
– Toy guns, replicas, and imitation firearms capable of being mistaken for real weapons,
– Component parts of firearms, excluding telescopic sights,
– Compressed air and CO2 guns, such as pistols, pellet guns, rifles and ball bearing guns ,
– Signal flare pistols and starter pistols,
– Bows, crossbows, and arrows,
– Harpoon, guns and spear guns,
– Slingshots and catapult.

b) Stunning devices, devices designed specifically to stun or immobilize, including:

– Devices for shocking, such as stun guns, tasers and stun batons,
– Animal stunners and animal killers,
– Disabling and incapacitating chemicals, gases and sprays, such as mace, pepper sprays, capsicum sprays, tear gas, acid sprays and animal repellent sprays.

c) Objects with a sharp point or sharp edge capable of being used to cause serious injury, including:

– Items designed for chopping, such as axes, hatchets and cleavers,
– Ice axes and ice picks,
– Razor blades,
– Box cutters,
– Knives with blades of more than 6 cm,
– Scissors with blade of more than 6cm as measured from the fulcrum,
– Martial arts equipment with a sharp point or sharp edge,
– Swords and sabers.

d) Workmen’s tools, tools capable of being used either to cause serious injury or to threaten the safety of aircraft, including:

– Crowbars,
– Drills and drill bits, including cordless portable power drills,
– Tools with a blade or a shaft of more than 6 cm capable of use as weapon such as screwdrivers and chisels,
– Saws, including cordless portable power saws,
– Blowtorches,
– Bolt guns and nail guns.

e) Blunt instruments, objects capable of being used to cause serious injury when used to hit, including:

– Baseball and softball bats,
– Clubs and batons, such as billy clubs, blackjacks and night sticks,
– Martial arts equipment.

f) Explosives and incendiary substances and devices capable or appearing capable of being used to cause serious injury or to pose a threat to the safety of aircraft, including:

– Ammunition,
– Blasting caps,
– Detonators and fuses,
– Replica or imitation explosives devices,
– Mines, grenades and other explosive military stores,
– Fireworks and other pyrotechnics,
– Smoke generating canisters and smoke generating cartridges
– Dynamite, gunpowder and plastic explosives.

g) Liquids and other similar products.

Liquids, unless in individual containers with a capacity not greater than 100 milliliters or equivalent and contained in one transparent re-sealable plastic bag of a capacity not exceeding 1 liter.

The term “liquids” includes:

– Water, other drinks, soups, syrup,
– Perfumes, colognes,
– Gels, pastes, lotions, liquid / solid mixtures,
– Toothpastes, oils, body creams,
– Mascara and other cosmetics of liquid substance or liquid / solid mixtures,
– Sprays,
– Aerosols, shaving foam and other items of similar consistency,
– Other similar items.

Explosives and incendiary substances and devices capable of being used to cause serious injury or to pose a threat to the safety of aircraft, including:

– Ammunition,
– Blasting caps,
– Detonators and fuses,
– Mines, grenades and other explosive military stores,
– Fireworks and other pyrotechnics,
– Smoke generating canisters and smoke – generating cartridges,
– Dynamite, gunpowder and plastic explosives.

Further to the above, the additional items are checked:

– Gases: propane, butane,
– Flammable liquids, in which gasoline and methanol are included,
– Flammable solids and drastic substances, in which magnesium, firelighters and flares are included,
– Oxidant substances and organic peroxides, in which whitener substances and the full series of vehicle body repair articles, are included,
– Toxic or infectious materials, in which arsenic and contaminated blood are included,
– Radioactive materials, in which isotopes for medical or commercial use are included,
– Corrosive substances, in which mercury and car batteries are included,
– Constructive elements from the vehicles’ fuel supply system that contained fuel.

PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICES (PEDs)

• Portable Electronic Devices (PEDs) containing lithium batteries carried by passengers must be carried in the passenger cabin, on the person or in the carry-on baggage.
• The carriage of Portable Electronic Devices (PEDs) containing lithium batteries placed in checked baggage in the cargo compartment is prohibited
• Τhe carriage of spare batteries, power banks and portable electronic smoking devices (e.g. e-cigarettes, personal vaporizers) in checked baggage is forbidden.
• For passengers departing from sites except airports, all baggage and carry-on baggage excluding PEDs will be stored in the cargo compartment of the helicopter