Aviation security

• Prepare a boarding pass, passport and present it to the employees of the aviation security service;
• Remove your outer clothing and put it in a basket, which also needs to put the contents of your pockets, trouser strap and a package of liquids (see section “Rules for transporting liquids”);
• Place the electronic devices (computers, tablets, phones, etc.) in a separate basket;
• Put all your belongings (bags and baskets) on the moving part of the conveyor and wait for the invitation of aviation security personnel to pass through a stationary metal detector.

If necessary, you will be subject to security control by the hand held metal detector and/or to the hand search

Prohibited items and dangerous goods

List of dangerous items and substances prohibited for carriage by air

1. Passengers and cabin baggage

• Passengers are not allowed to carry the following items in their cabin baggage or personal belongings into restricted areas and on board aircraft for security reasons:
• guns
• firearms, and other devices that fire
• a ball charge
• devices that can be used to cause serious damage and harm by firing a bullet,
• all types of firearms, including guns, revolvers, rifles and shotguns; toy guns, simulants and imitations of small arms that can be mistakenly treated as real weapons;
• components of small arms, with exception of telescopic sights; compressed air guns and carbon dioxide canisters, including guns, ball rifles, rifles and ball guns; signal flare pistols and starting pistols; bows, crossbows and arrows;
• harpoon guns and spearfishing guns; slingshots and slings; electroshock devices,
• guns for shock destruction (guns, sticks, etc); devices for shock action on animals and devices for killing animals;
• chemicals, gases and sprays that disable and paralyze (Mace gas, pepper spray, acid sprays, animal repellent sprays, and tear gas, etc); pointed objects or objects with a sharp tip,
• items intended for chopping (axes, cutters, cleavers, etc);
• ice axes and ice picks; shaving blades; knives for cutting cardboard; knives with a blade length more than 6 cm;
• scissors with blades longer than 6 cm (if measured from the centre of hinge); weapon for martial arts with pointed ends or pointed edges; swords and sabres; working tools, namely:
• mounting tools;
• drills and borers, including cordless portable electric drills;
• tools with blades or rods longer than 6 cm that can be used as weapons (screwdrivers, chisels, etc); saws, including cordless portable electric saws; blowtorches;
  “guns” for fixing and hammering nails; blunted tools,
• baseball bats and softball bats; clubs and batons, namely various types of police batons (hard, flexible and sticks with a flashlight, etc); weapon for martial arts; explosives and ignition agents and devices,
• ammunition;
• detonator capsules;
• detonators and fuses;
• copies or imitations of explosive devices;
• mines, grenades and other explosive devices for military purposes; pyrotechnics, including pyrotechnic devices for fireworks; smoke bombs or cartridges; dynamite, gunpowder and plastic explosives etc.

2. Passengers and hold (checked) baggage

Passengers are not allowed to carry the following items in the hold baggage:

• explosives and ignition agents and devices,
• ammunition;
• detonator capsules;
• detonators and fuses;
• mines, grenades and other explosive devices for military purposes; pyrotechnics, including pyrotechnic devices for fireworks; smoke bombs or cartridges; dynamite, gunpowder and plastic explosives etc.

3. Liquids and powders

Liquids include:

• water and other drinks, soups, syrups;
• creams, lotions and oils;
• perfumes;
• sprays;
• gels, including shampoos and shower gels;
• pressurised containers, including shaving foam, styling mousse and other foam-based agents and deodorants;
• pastes, including toothpaste;
• liquid-solid mixtures, also
• all other items of similar consistency.

Liquids may be carried in your cabin baggage, but only in small containers not exceeding 100 ml (3.4 oz) per item. It is forbidden to take liquid in packages with a capacity of more than 100 ml into the cabin of the aircraft, even if the container is partially filled, it will not be allowed to be transported in the cabin. It is also prohibited to put any liquids, suspensions, creams, pastes with a capacity of more than 100 ml (grams) in one bottle (tube) into the aircraft in cabin baggage. The total amount of these substances in cabin baggage packed in containers with a capacity of up to 100 ml (grams) should not exceed 1 liter (kg) per passenger. Larger amounts must be carried in your hold baggage.

You may always bring the following liquids and powders in cabin baggage:

• Baby food to be consumed during the flight
• Medicines to be taken during the flight, provided you have a prescription or attending physician’s statement
• Special diet foods to be consumed during the flight
• An urn containing ashes of a deceased person, provided it meets the requirements
• Purchased in a duty-free shop and packed in a special plastic bag goods with opening control.

4. Carriage of medicine and dietary products in the cabin baggage

Carriage of medicine and dietary products in the cabin baggage should be approved by the airline representative beforehand.

The passenger who needs to have some medicine (or injection) during the flight should provide the information to the airline representative – carrier (operator) and also obtain the information as to the necessary medical references to be provided before the flight.

The medicine (including those in the syringes or in other injection means) is allowed in the cabin baggage in case it is essential for the passenger, e.g., insulin, antihistamines, painkillers, etc. The necessity and the amount of the medicine should be pointed out in the doctor’s reference and confirmed by the doctor’s stamp.

During the security screening the passenger possessing the medicine in the cabin baggage (including those in the syringes or other injection means) should inform the aviation security personnel about it and submit the corresponding medical reference, who then calls the representetative of airline to confirm transportation of pointed items. After the approval of the airline representative and successful aviation security control the passenger is allowed to board an aircraft.

Depending on the health ability of the passenger (availability of the medical references etc.) the airline representative – carrier (operator) has the right to deny or to allow the carriage.

Parents with babies may carry the baby food in the cabin baggage in quantity enough for the whole journey.

5. Transportation of weapons

(The instruction on weapon and ammunition air carriage approved by the State Aviation Administration of Ukraine on March 18, 2005, No.199):

The following articles are allowed to be carried on passenger flights:

• military rifle-bore and customized weapons; emasculated, training, old-fashioned small arms, sporting hunting weapons, combined mode and smooth-fore firearms, as well as ammunition; air guns, domestically produced devices designed to release bullets and equipped with rubber or other nonlethal weapons
  melee weapons (crossbows, hunting knives, Japanese swords, sabers, broadswords, yatagans, Finnish knives, daggers, bayonets, and bayonet-knives);
  practice and fake weapons; gas spray guns and revolvers owned by enterprises, institutions, organizations, business unions and citizens.

All weapons owned by individuals are carried unloaded and unpiled (if possible) as hold baggage;
in a portable metal container equipped with a secure lock;
in the baggage area; given that during the flight neither passengers nor crew have access to these articles.

At the check-in desk, passengers traveling on the territory of Ukraine and carrying firearms, air guns, melee weapons and ammunition must present permits for the storage, carrying and transportation of weapons issued by the relevant internal affairs agency or the National Police, or a duplicate permit for the purchase of weapons with a mark of a trade organization for the sale of weapons.