FAA allows knives for checked baggage

[Armand]

You don't have to worry about traveling your knives by plane. Media is just exaggerating things about knives.

FAA allows knives of any size as long as it will be checked in baggage. Here is the link
to FAA's site regarding this matter. http://www.faa.gov/apa/faq/pr_faq.htm

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[SDouglas]

I spoke to my airline because I am going to be flying the end of this week.

They said knives are fine in checked baggage as long as they are declared when the bags are checked.

I plan on placing a Victorinox Classic off my keychain into the checked luggage at the Check in Counter. That way I can declare the bag to contain knives without necessarily making it a target for thievery.

 

[Erikfsn]

and there was no problem. I checked my knives. Security was extremely tight. My carry on bag went through the x-ray machine 3 times and was searched because they thought they saw a nail clipper. I walked through 2 x-ray machines and was frisked and they passed a handheld device of some sort over my whole body.