cigars on airplane

[nightowl]

Going to take a trip to florida for a few days and would like to take a few smokes. Would it be better to put them in checked baggage and not deal with security and carry on? I plan on cutting them at home so I don't have to take the cutter, and just buy a bic when I get there. I'd like to take my torch, but I believe that is not allowed. there is a local b&m I'll probably visit when I am there and support them too.
thanks

 

[Tnt Cigarguy]

I fly every week and carry on is np.

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[mwlabel]

Take them in your carry-on. I almost always fly with my cigars now, sometimes my entire humi. In your checked bag, they will be thrown around at minimum. I had workers open up a box and sort through them once, damaging a few smokes. In your carry on, they're under your control.

 

[BrandonP]

I always carry on my smokes and my cutter too. Cigar cutters are allowed on the plane per TSA.

 

[icehog3]

I always carry on my smokes and my cutter too. Cigar cutters are allowed on the plane per TSA.

This...I like to keep control over my smokes.

 

[jmvcp]

I think you can carry a lighter in a tsa approved container but has to be in checked luggage though I could be wrong.

 

[jmvcp]

It looks like torches are a no but you can carry common.
http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtravel/prohibited/permitted-prohibited-items.shtm

 

[jayro75]

I always toss my torch and cutter in my checked bag and bring my cigars on the plane. I make sure to bring a cheap cutter and lighter so that if they take them out of the checked bag it's no big loss.

 

[Eric_GranPuro]

I always toss my torch and cutter in my checked bag and bring my cigars on the plane. I make sure to bring a cheap cutter and lighter so that if they take them out of the checked bag it's no big loss.

Yeah, I'm going to be flying this summer also. Bring cigars back on forth on carry on is the only way I have peace of mind they're safe.

I wasn't aware that cigar cutters were allowed, but I'll take your advice and bring my cheapie cutter just in case they're confiscated, it's no loss. I don't have enough faith that my torch lighter will make it through, so I have to leave it

 

[The EVP]

No problem with cigars on the plane. I'd put them in your carry on as I've had TSA help themselves to a cigar or two from my checked bags. Luckly, they weren't anything that I can't replace easily (RP Edge and a Perdomo Lot 23). I hope they at least enjoyed them....

 

[Alwayslit]

This...I like to keep control over my smokes.

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[L8A]

I fly every week and carry on is np.

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^^^^^ What Trevor said. Smokes stay with me and my cutter and lighter go in by checked bag. Never had an issue.

 

[Pantomimehorse]

interesting that the TSA say torches are a no go, I flew with British Airways from London to Philly last year and they advised me to put my lighter in my carry on and not my hold bag. I questioned this and she pointed out a big sign confirming what she had said. As the flight was to the US surely that comes under TSA regulations?

 

[JuYcEmAn]

I travel frequently for business. Although I try and patronize local B&M's, I do bring an assortment of cigars to smoke (and share with co-workers or friends). I don't risk possibly violating the TSA's rules, or get the "ocassional rogue agant"; I put my Xikar Torch and Cutter, as well as my travel humi, in my checked luggage. If it is a shorter stay, I will leave the lighter and cutter behind and bring a 3 stick cigar carrier in my checked luggage.

 

[njstone]

Cigars on the plane violates nothing, and there are always several TSA agents at the checkpoints, so if you get an idiot, he/she will be able to ask their fellow workers to confirm (just don't talk loudly or anything as to embarrass them ... just whisper, "I'm positive that cigars are allowed by TSA regulations, would you mind asking one of your colleagues for me?").

But I've never been hassled. I just make sure to take out my lighter and draw poker (THAT sucker looks like a weapon, lol). The times that I've left my cigars in my checked luggage, they usually get "searched," and sometimes sticks get "lost" in the process.

 

[Eric_GranPuro]

I put my Xikar Torch and Cutter, as well as my travel humi, in my checked luggage.

I never check baggage so carrying on a torch lighter is impossible, unfortunately.

 

[jayro75]

Cigars on the plane violates nothing, and there are always several TSA agents at the checkpoints, so if you get an idiot, he/she will be able to ask their fellow workers to confirm (just don't talk loudly or anything as to embarrass them ... just whisper, "I'm positive that cigars are allowed by TSA regulations, would you mind asking one of your colleagues for me?").

But I've never been hassled. I just make sure to take out my lighter and draw poker (THAT sucker looks like a weapon, lol). The times that I've left my cigars in my checked luggage, they usually get "searched," and sometimes sticks get "lost" in the process.

Cigars on a plane are fine as long as they're unlit. I was on a flight between Frankfurt and Bologna a few years ago and the guy across from me was chewing on a cigar the whole time. The flight attendants paid him no mind whatsoever.

 

[gibbleguts]

Only issue I have ever had was TSA took 2 of my lighters on the way back from Chicago. One was even a soft flame that should have been allowed in checked luggage. I try to carry them on unless I am trying to hide something. Then I wrapped them in birthday paper and put the box and jar in my checked luggage. Coming back from Cuba I pack anything over my 50 loose in my checked luggage and everything else in my carry on. Tho sometimes have to pack a jar or 2 if they don't fit tho

 

[Fia]

I always carry on my smokes and my cutter too. Cigar cutters are allowed on the plane per TSA.

I do the same...always carry my cigars and cutter. I will carry on a soft flame lighter as that is also allowed. If you want a torch lighter, has to go checked in a TSA approved container. I have used that yellow transpack thing for years and never had a problem.

 

[Cigary43]

Cigars on the plane violates nothing, and there are always several TSA agents at the checkpoints, so if you get an idiot, he/she will be able to ask their fellow workers to confirm (just don't talk loudly or anything as to embarrass them ... just whisper, "I'm positive that cigars are allowed by TSA regulations, would you mind asking one of your colleagues for me?").

But I've never been hassled. I just make sure to take out my lighter and draw poker (THAT sucker looks like a weapon, lol). The times that I've left my cigars in my checked luggage, they usually get "searched," and sometimes sticks get "lost" in the process.

I've actually taken my draw poker and inserted it into a churchill sized cigar and it gets through TSA every time. I travel a lot with my cigars and keep a bic lighter in the Herf A Dor along with a printed out TSA form where it says what is ok...just in case they have any questions. Never bring your torches as I've had too many confiscated so what I do is put it in my checked baggage buried in my socks which I put into my shoes and it always gets through.