On this page you will find basic information about which items are prohibited or allowed with restrictions, but some rules may vary by country. Carefully read the rules in force at the local airport, as well as on the flights of the Airline.

WARNING! In order to ensure the security of civil aviation security control is carried out on all flights at the airport. All passengers, their cabin baggage, hold baggage and all personal belongings are subject to security control (screening).

WARNING! Passengers, who have not passed the security control (screening) or have not submitted for this cabin baggage, hold baggage and other personal belongings before boarding an aircraft are not allowed for transportation.

Some items and substances are allowed to be carried only in checked (hold) baggage, such items and substances are not allowed in the cabin of the aircraft.

• Prepare a boarding pass, passport and present it to the employees of the aviation security service;
• Remove your outer clothing and put it in a basket, which also needs to put the contents of your pockets, trouser strap and a package of liquids (see section “Rules for transporting liquids”);
• Place the electronic devices (computers, tablets, phones, etc.) in a separate basket;
• Put all your belongings (bags and baskets) on the moving part of the conveyor and wait for the invitation of aviation security personnel to pass through a stationary metal detector.

If necessary, you will be subject to security control by the hand held metal detector and/or to the hand search.

To ensure the safety and security of our passengers and our crew, any item of which we have reason to believe it might be used or adapted for causing injury or incapacitation of a person, or endanger an aircraft are not allowed to be transported.

1. Passengers and cabin baggage

Passengers are not allowed to carry the following items in their cabin baggage or personal belongings into restricted areas and on board aircraft for security reasons:

a) guns, firearms, and other devices that fire a ball charge and devices that can be used to cause serious damage and harm by firing a bullet, including:

• all types of firearms, including guns, revolvers, rifles and shotguns;
• toy guns, simulants and imitations of small arms that can be mistakenly treated as real weapons;
• components of small arms, with exception of telescopic sights;
• compressed air guns and carbon dioxide canisters, including guns, ball rifles, rifles and ball guns;
• signal flare pistols and starting pistols;
• bows, crossbows and arrows;
• harpoon guns and spearfishing guns;
• slingshots and slings;

b) electroshock devices, namely:

• guns for shock destruction (guns, sticks, etc);
• devices for shock action on animals and devices for killing animals;
• chemicals, gases and sprays that disable and paralyze (Mace gas, pepper spray, acid sprays, animal repellent sprays, and tear gas, etc);

c) pointed objects or objects with a sharp tip, namely:

• items intended for chopping (axes, cutters, cleavers, etc);
• ice axes and ice picks;
• shaving blades;
• knives for cutting cardboard;
• knives with a blade length more than 6 cm;
• scissors with blades longer than 6 cm (if measured from the centre of hinge);
• weapon for martial arts with pointed ends or pointed edges;
• swords and sabres;

d) working tools, namely:

• mounting tools;
• drills and borers, including cordless portable electric drills;
• tools with blades or rods longer than 6 cm that can be used as weapons (screwdrivers, chisels, etc);
• saws, including cordless portable electric saws;
• blowtorches;
• "guns" for fixing and hammering nails;

e) blunted tools, namely:

• baseball bats and softball bats;
• clubs and batons, namely various types of police batons (hard, flexible and sticks with a flashlight, etc);
• weapon for martial arts;

f) explosives and ignition agents and devices, namely:

• ammunition;
• detonator capsules;
• detonators and fuses;
• copies or imitations of explosive devices;
• mines, grenades and other explosive devices for military purposes;
• pyrotechnics, including pyrotechnic devices for fireworks;
• smoke bombs or cartridges;
• dynamite, gunpowder and plastic explosives etc.

The content of this list is not exhaustive, but only defines the basic list of items that should be withdrawn from passengers or from their cabin baggage during the flight before boarding the aircraft.

If your item is not on the list, or you have any questions, please contact your travel agency or Airline Support.

Please note that the Airline, for reasons of passengers and crew members safety and security on board the aircraft, reserves the right to temporarily withdraw some items, in particular, which are allowed for carriage in cabin baggage, taking into account the list above, or which are not indicated in it, but which can pose a potential threat to others and are detected by the crew members in passengers during the flight (for example: knitting needle, needles, objects with a blade or rods less than 6 cm., etc.).

2. Passengers and hold (checked) baggage

Passengers are not allowed to carry the following items in the hold baggage:

a) explosives and ignition agents and devices, namely:

• ammunition;
• detonator capsules;
• detonators and fuses;
• copies or imitations of explosive devices;
• mines, grenades and other explosive devices for military purposes;
• pyrotechnics, including pyrotechnic devices for fireworks;
• smoke bombs or cartridges;
• dynamite, gunpowder and plastic explosives etc.

3. Liquids and powders

Liquids include:

• water and other drinks, soups, syrups;
• creams, lotions and oils;
• perfumes;
• sprays;
• gels, including shampoos and shower gels;
• pressurised containers, including shaving foam, styling mousse and other foam-based agents and deodorants;
• pastes, including toothpaste;
• liquid-solid mixtures;
• all other items of similar consistency.

Liquids may be carried in your cabin baggage, but only in small containers not exceeding 100 ml (3.4 oz) per item. It is forbidden to take liquid in packages with a capacity of more than 100 ml into the cabin of the aircraft, even if the container is partially filled, it will not be allowed to be transported in the cabin. It is also prohibited to put any liquids, suspensions, creams, pastes with a capacity of more than 100 ml (grams) in one bottle (tube) into the aircraft in cabin baggage. The total amount of these substances in cabin baggage packed in containers with a capacity of up to 100 ml (grams) should not exceed 1 liter (kg) per passenger. Larger amounts must be carried in your hold baggage.

You may always bring the following liquids and powders in your cabin baggage:

• Baby food to be consumed during the flight
• Medicines to be taken during the flight, provided you have a prescription or attending physician's statement
• Special diet foods to be consumed during the flight
• An urn containing ashes of a deceased person, provided it meets the requirements
• Sealed tax-free items

On flights to and from the United States, powders and powder like substances may be carried in your cabin baggage, but only in small amounts not exceeding 350 ml (12 oz) per item. Larger amounts must be carried in your hold baggage. If there are any signs of tampering, the item is not allowed in either your cabin baggage or hold baggage.

4. Carriage of medicine and dietary products in the cabin baggage.

Carriage of medicine and dietary products in the cabin baggage should be approved by the airline representative beforehand.

The passenger who needs to have some medicine (or injection) during the flight should provide the information to the airline representative and also obtain the information as to the necessary medical references to be provided before the flight.

The medicine (including those in the syringes or in other injection means) is allowed in the cabin baggage in case it is essential for the passenger, e.g., insulin, antihistamines, painkillers, etc. The necessity and the amount of the medicine should be pointed out in the doctor’s reference and confirmed by the doctor’s stamp.

During the security screening the passenger possessing the medicine in the cabin baggage (including those in the syringes or other injection means) should inform the aviation security personnel about it and submit the corresponding medical reference. The airline representative approves the carriage of such items in the cabin baggage. After the approval of the airline representative and successful aviation security control the passenger is allowed to board an aircraft.

Depending on the health ability of the passenger (availability of the medical references) the airline representative has the right to deny or to allow the carriage.

Passengers with babies may carry the baby food in the cabin baggage in quantity enough for the whole journey.

5. Transportation of weapons

(The instruction on weapon and ammunition air carriage approved by the State Aviation Administration of Ukraine on March 18, 2005, No.199):

The following articles are allowed to be carried on passenger flights:

• military rifle-bore and customized weapons;
• emasculated, training, old-fashioned small arms, sporting and hunting weapons, combined mode and smooth-fore firearms, as well as ammunition;
• air guns, domestically produced devices designed to release bullets and equipped with rubber or other nonlethal weapons
• melee weapons (crossbows, hunting knives, Japanese swords, sabers, broadswords, yatagans, Finnish knives, daggers, bayonets, and bayonet-knives);
• practice and fake weapons;
• gas spray guns and revolvers owned by enterprises, institutions, organizations, business unions and citizens.

All weapons owned by individuals are carried:

• unloaded and unpiled (if possible);
• as hold baggage;
• in a portable metal container equipped with a secure lock;
• in the baggage area;
• given that during the flight neither passengers nor crew have access to these articles.

At the check-in counter passengers traveling within Ukraine and carrying of firearms, air guns, melee weapons and ammunition are required to present permissions to store, bear and transport weapons/ copies of weapon acquisition permits with a marketing note for each unit carried. The document must be issued by the relevant internal affairs authority.

WARNING!!!! At present time, airline does not transport personal weapons and ammunition of individuals and legal entities.

6. Dangerous goods

When determining the limit for cabin baggage and hold baggage carriage by passengers, as well as cargo and mail items, adhere to the standards and recommended practices set forth in Annex 18 of ICAO to the Convention on International Civil Aviation and ICAO Doc. 9284 "Technical Instructions for the Safe Transport of Dangerous Goods by Air".

List of dangerous goods and items, as well as the conditions under which they can be carried by passengers or crew members.

WARNING! This list should be used only as a guide to what is permitted and prohibited in passenger or crew baggage. Dangerous goods not contained in the list are prohibited from carriage on aircraft by passengers and crew.