Preparation

Here is some advice to help you to do the right things before you reach the airport  to make things go as well as possible.

KEEP INFORMED

  • contact your airline or your travel agent to be certain when you should be at the airport to check in. Check-in times vary according to airline and destination.
  • contact your airline, since you can take only one piece of carry-on luggage whose size varies according to airline.
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PREPARATION OF CHECKED BAGGAGE

Règles de sûreté

Your checked baggage must all be labelled with your name
 we advise you to keep your photographic film and medication with you in your carry-on luggage.

Certain items are forbidden in checked baggage; make certain not to include them in your luggage:

  • Explosives
  • Ammunition
  • Flammable liquids, solids or gases (white-spirit, butane...)
  • Corrosive products (chlorine bleach, detergent...)
  • Toxic substances
  • Neutralizing or incapacitating products (teargas...)

- if you need to carry items that are forbidden in carry-on luggage, put them in your checked baggage

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PREPARING HAND LUGGAGE

Some items cannot be carried onboard.
 
Make certain not to put them in your carry-on luggage:

  • Firearms
  • Knives & sharp instruments
  • Blunt instruments (golf clubs, camera tripod, skateboard...)
  • Explosives, ammunition, flammable liquids & corrosive products (chlorine bleach, detergent, white-spirit, methyl alcohol...)
  • Neutralizing or incapacitating products (teargas...)
  • Items that may be used as weapons
  • Items that may be taken for fatal weapons (toy weapons...)
  • Chemical and biological items and substances
  • In case of doubt, do not hesitate to put items in your checked baggage.

Avoid taking excess baggage, only one piece of carry-on baggage is accepted per person.

Allowed in your Hand Luggage

  • Bottles containing 100 ml in a plastic bag (20x20 cm)
  • Baby Food
  • Liquid Medications, with prescription only
Sac pour les liquides
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ATTIRE

- Wear shoes that can easily be removed , since you may be asked to remove them for the security control

- Don’t forget that any metal you wear may trigger the security control alarm (belt, buttons, jewellery and reinforced shoes), requiring a more thorough search

Do not hesitate to put such items in your carry-on luggage when you go through the security control.