Can you fly Knives?

[ballsagne]

If you check your luggage is it possibly to put your pocket knife/knives in that luggage and fly it with you on vacation?

 

[bcornelis]

The short answer is yes. My experience is not to take anything expensive in your checked luggage.

I usually take a SAK or leatherman when travelling.

 

[Bolt-action bultema]

+1 for a cheapo. I like to buy a SAK when I arrive, and check it back. I usually don't like to check a bag on the way there. Knives, as long as they are legal in both localities, are not prohibited in checked luggage, although I have heard of theft from TSA workers.

 

[Bumppo]

I clearly mark them in a see through plastic container, and have an itemized list of them on the container and on a name and address card kept inside on top of my clothes. I have had some mysteriously disappear, but i think the list for some reason magically helps keep them in place.I lock the container with a TSA approved lock as well.

 

[C0D1! M.D.]

I usually fly with one in my checked bag and it's fine. I do worry about it getting stolen though.

 

[VashHash]

Never had any trouble with my knives in checked luggage. Although the undercover guy at disney didn't like the kershaw clipped in my pocket. But i got a cool souvenir most people don't get from disney. The bag they put my consficated knife in. I got it back as soon as i left the park. Good thing i was wearing my 1st Trip to disney pin.

 

[uncouth]

checked baggage, cheapo knives, no problem, i even got the note from tsa that they went through my checked luggage one trip and i had about eight or ten knives including a mora sheath knife, no problems.

 

[Gadgetaholic]

i even got the note from tsa that they went through my checked luggage one trip

What did it say exactly? Was it "we went through your luggage and didn't find anything we liked?"

 

[Erasmus]

Only an inhuman beast would steal a pocket knife from checked luggage. It should be a felony!

A couple of summers ago, we just tossed our SAK's in our checked luggage and hoped for the best. No problems.

 

[RickdelM]

I've had a couple of knives taken from my checked luggage, both Spydercos that could only have been found by a person with an X-Ray machine. This tells me it was not the baggage handlers. I have also noticed that you are no longer allowed to use TSA locks on your gun case when carrying a gun in checked baggage, you must use your own lock. This tells me that TSA does not trust its people with the keys to your gun case.

rickdm