Checked Baggage
Travelers can check in at the curb with a skycap or proceed to the ticketing counter. All passengers are required to present picture identification upon check-in. Most luggage styles look similar. Ribbons or distinctive luggage tags make it easier to identify baggage. Put identification on the outside and inside of bags indicating home and destination contact numbers. Never leave baggage unattended or agree to carry a bag for a person unknown to you.

Carry-On Baggage
Most airlines limit carry-on pieces to two, including purses and briefcases. During peak travel times, this limit may be reduced to one. Check with airline on the maximum size and number of carry-on bags allowed. Keep essentials such as prescriptions, personal hygiene items, passports, important documents and valuables (jewelry or cameras) with you. Plan to check more of your baggage and carry on less.

Restricted Items, Carry on and Checked Luggage
Liquids are restricted to 3 oz. containers in a clear zip plastic bag. No water bottles are permitted past the checkpoints, however water may be purchased past security and taken onboard aircraft.

Fireworks, signal flares, sparklers or other explosives.

Flammable liquids or solids such as fuel, paints, lighter fluid, matches, or perfume (no more than 16 oz. per container).

Strike-anywhere matches or lights with flammable liquid reservoirs.

Pressure containers such as spray cans (hair spray, deodorant or repellents), butane fuel such as curling iron refills, scuba tanks, propane tanks, CO2 cartridges, self-inflating rafts.

Other materials such as dry ice, gas-powered tools, wet-cell batteries, camping equipment with fuel, radioactive materials, poisons, infectious substances. Dry Ice (4 lbs. or less) may be carried on board for packing perishables providing the package is vented.

Weapons such as firearms, ammunition, gunpowder, mace, tear gas or pepper spray. Firearms may be checked and declared, if unloaded.

Passengers must declare hazardous materials to airlines, express package carriers or the Postal Service. Violations carry a civil penalty of up to $27,500 for each occurrence and, in appropriate cases, a criminal penalty of up to $500,000 and/or up to five years imprisonment.