Dangerous Goods
Prohibited items and baggage guidelines
For the safety of all passengers and crew, certain materials and substances are strictly prohibited on board our flights. Please review the following guidelines to ensure compliance and avoid issues during check-in or security screening.Prohibited items: health & safety risks
We kindly ask all passengers to adhere to the ban on carrying the following dangerous or restricted items, which may pose serious risks to personal health, fellow travelers, and aircraft safety:Explosive or flammable materials
These are not allowed in either carry-on or checked baggage, including but not limited to:
- Ammunition or weapons
- Fireworks or flares
- Gas cylinders or gas containers
- Flammable fuels or liquids (e.g. lighter fluid, paints, solvents)
- Alcoholic beverages with more than 70% alcohol content
- Acetone and similar volatile substances
Toxic or chemical substances
The transport of hazardous chemicals is prohibited, including:
- Acids, alkalis, and corrosive agents
- Bleach or cleaning products
- Pepper spray or incapacitating sprays
- Radioactive materials or poisons
Infectious or biological materials
Items such as contaminated blood, bacteria, or viruses are strictly forbidden.Transporting food & beverages
Food in liquid or semi-liquid form
Items like olive oil must be:
- Securely packed in wooden boxes with absorbent materials to prevent leaks.
- Checked against import restrictions that may apply in your destination country.
Wine and alcohol
Bottled wine must be packed in leak-proof wineskins, one per bottle, if placed in checked baggage. Alternatively, you may use:
- A wooden box with absorbent materials (wood chips, cloth), or
- A cardboard box with custom-fit Styrofoam inserts.
Unbottled wine is not permitted.
Additional charges may apply based on your fare class and baggage allowance.
Electronic cigarettes & Power banks
Passengers can carry electronic cigarettes including e-cigars and other personal vaporizers containing batteries, for personal use, in their carry-on baggage only. It is strictly prohibited to include electronic cigarettes in checked baggage.The use or charging of smoking devices, including electronic cigarettes or vaping devices, as well as personal power banks, is strictly prohibited in the aircraft cabin at all times. Recharging of these devices and/or batteries on board the aircraft is not permitted, and passengers must take measures to prevent their accidental activation. Additionally, it is prohibited to use power banks to charge any electronic device onboard.
Important information on the carriage of power banks and devices containing lithium batteries:
As of 8 September 2026, enhanced screening procedures have been implemented at Athens International Airport (AIA) for items that are not permitted in checked baggage, in accordance with the Technical Instructions of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO Doc 9284-AN/905, Part 8, Chapter 1, as amended and currently in force).
These items include, among others, power banks, spare or replacement lithium batteries, and electronic cigarettes.
If any such item is detected in checked baggage during security screening, it will be removed in the presence of an airport representative, in a designated area monitored by security cameras, and subsequently sent for recycling.
Following the removal, an official information notice issued by Athens International Airport (AIA) will be placed inside the baggage, informing the passenger that the item was identified and removed during the screening process.
Power bank and battery transport guidelines
Important note:
- Only 1 power bank per passenger up to 100 Whs.
- Αllowed in carry-on baggage – not permitted in checked baggage (will be removed if detected in security scanning).
- Power banks may not be used to charge any personal devices onboard.
- Charging a power bank using the aircraft's power supply is not permitted.
Spare / loose batteries
- Allowed only in carry-on baggage – not permitted in checked baggage.
- Must be individually protected to prevent short circuits:
- Use original retail packaging or
- Insulate terminals (e.g., tape over exposed terminals, or place in separate plastic bags/pouches).
Applies to: - Lithium-ion and lithium metal batteries
- Non-spillable batteries
- Nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) and dry batteries
- Power banks (considered spare batteries)
Quantity and capacity limits
Spare lithium batteries:
- Up to 20 batteries per passenger
Must not exceed: - 100 Wh (Watt-hour) for lithium-ion
- 2 g lithium content for lithium metal
Non-spillable batteries:
- Max 2 spare batteries per passenger
- Must not exceed 12 V and 100 Wh
High-capacity batteries (over 100 Wh / over 2 g lithium) are not allowed.
Batteries installed in devices
Devices include laptops, cameras, medical equipment (e.g., nebulisers, oxygen concentrators), and other portable electronics.
Battery limits for installed devices:
- Lithium-ion batteries: Max 100 Wh
- Lithium metal batteries: Max 2 g lithium content
Self-balancing devices
AEGEAN and Olympic Air do not accept for transportation any type of self-balancing device, neither as cabin baggage nor as checked baggage.Smart bags
AEGEAN and Olympic Air do not accept smart bags with non-removable lithium batteries as cabin or checked baggage on any flight. Smart bags with removable batteries will be accepted if the battery is removed and carried separately in the cabin (up to 100Wh if the battery is lithium ion or up to 2g if the battery is lithium metal).Liability for the Transport of Baggage
For further information on the Liability for the Transport of Baggage and the transport of special items, please see the section Conditions & Notices.
For more information please contact us or reach out to the AEGEAN call centre.
Ιtems only allowed in checked baggage (aircraft hold):
Any item capable, or appearing capable, of firing a projectile or causing injury.
Including:
- Any firearm (pistols, revolvers, rifles, hunting guns, shotguns, etc.)
- Replicas and imitations of firearms
- Parts of firearms (with the exception of telescopic sights and aiming lenses)
- Air pistols, air rifles, pellet guns and ball bearing guns
- Flare pistols
- Starter pistols
- Toy guns of any kind
- Learners’ guns
- Industrial bolt and nail guns
- Crossbows
- Slings
- Spear guns
- Slaughterhouse guns
- Cigarette lighters shaped like a firearm
Any blunt or pointed object capable of causing injury. These include:
- Baseball and softball bats
- Clubs or batons – rigid or flexible – e.g. truncheons, night sticks and batons
- Cricket bats
- Golf clubs
- Hockey sticks
- Lacrosse sticks
- Kayak and canoe paddles
- Skateboards
- Billiard cues
- Fishing rods
- Martial arts equipment, e.g. knuckle dusters, clubs, coshes, rice flails, nunchucks, kubatons, kubasaunts.
Objects with a point or sharp edge capable of causing injury. These include:
- Small and large axes
- Arrows and darts
- Hooks
- Harpoons and spears
- Icepicks
- Ice-skates
- Pocket-knives or stilettos with any length of blade
- Knives, including ceremonial knives, with blades longer than 6 cm, of metal or any other hard material capable of being used as weapons
- Meat cleaver
- Hatchets
- Machetes
- Cutthroat razors and razor-blades (with the exception of safety blades or disposable razors, with blades in a case)
- Sabres, swords and swordsticks
- Scalpels
- Scissors with blades longer than 6cm
- Ski and walking/hiking poles
- Throwing stars (shuriken)
- Professional or working tools which might serve as pointed or sharp-edged weapons, e.g. drills and bits, box cutters, kitchen knives, saws of any kind, screwdrivers, crowbars, hammers, pliers, spanners and wrenches, blow-torches.
Items prohibited in carry-on and checked baggage:
Any explosive or highly flammable material which might endanger the health of passengers and crew or the safety, in all respects, of the aircraft or personal items carried thereon.
These include:
- Ammunition
- Blasting caps
- Detonators and fuses
- Explosives and explosive devices
- Replicas or imitations of explosive materials or devices
- Mines or other military explosives
- Gases and gas cylinders, e.g. butane, propane, acetylene, oxygen – in large volume
- Fireworks, flares in any form and other pyrotechnics (including party poppers and toy caps)
- Non-safety matches
- Smoke grenades or cartridges
- Flammable liquid fuel, e.g. petrol, diesel, lighter fuel, alcohol, ethanol
- Paint spray cans
- Turpentine and paint thinners
- Alcoholic drinks with more than 70% alcohol content (140 proof). Packages containing up to 5 litres of alcoholic beverages with an alcohol content of between 24%-70% are, however, permitted.
- Weapons designed to stun or cause electric shock, e.g. cattle prods, tasers
- Dynamite, gunpowder and plastic explosives
Any chemical or toxic substance which might endanger the health of passengers and crew, or the safety, in any way, of the aircraft or personal items carried thereon. These include:
- Acids and alkalis, e.g. wet-cell batteries
- Corrosive or bleaching substances – e.g. mercury, chlorine
- Disabling or incapacitating sprays, e.g. Mace spray, pepper spray, tear gas
- Radioactive material e.g. isotopes for medical or commercial use
- Poisons
- Infectious or biologically hazardous materials, e.g. contaminated blood, bacteria and viruses.
- Material capable of spontaneous ignition or combustion.
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