Helmets allowed as hand luggage on plane?

[tuska]

any one done this?

[Gremlin]

any one done this?
Need more info on your travel... Domestic? International? Region of the world?

Essentially, depends on the airline, but you're definitely best to have it in a proper helmet bag (not the thin one that comes in the box).

[skippa1]

Yep n yep

10c

[R650R]

Post 911 on a flight to UK some Hipster fecker had a full size acoustic guitar!!! Have these security goons never seen someone gorroted with a wire in the movies???
Just wear it and tell them its a religious custom where you come from :)

[Hitcher]

I have taken a helmet as hand luggage to that most anally paranoid and vindictive of nations, the United States of America. I walk free.

[nzspokes]

Wear it. Say its religious. Take a Go pro.

[TLDV8]

Ask the airline for sure and cover it or put it in a compact bag.

I never gave it any thought when I flew Sydney / Singapore / Delhi.
I was short on space so attached it to my Camelbac as carry on, all the way to India and back to Singapore no problem then got stopped on the last leg back to Sydney.
It was a security risk in their eyes even though I had flown the whole way on the same airline.


A Arai cover might have been enough, out of site out of mind.

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[thepom]

Flown domestically three times to pick up bikes and never had a problem...

[awayatc]

Just dont call it a crash helmet.....

[kevfromcoro]

Just come back from ozz.
Took my helmet over as hand luggage.
No probs both ways,

[STJim]

I travelled to Australia in May. I carried a helmet as hand luggage on Air NZ to Adelaide and out from Darwin on Jet Star to Brisbane and then back to Auckland on Emirates.
No questions were asked.

[BigAl]

Fill it up with Cocaine too.

[BoristheBiter]

Traveled to the US and back from Mexico last September with two helmets in oxford helmet bags.
No problems, ever got a look.

[MrKiwi]

I always take my helmet as hand luggage, no way I'm trusting the luggage handlers. Never had any problems anywhere I've travelled.

[BuzzardNZ]

I have taken a helmet as hand luggage to that most anally paranoid and vindictive of nations, the United States of America. I walk free.

Doesn't your helmet also double up as a second suitcase ;) ?

[buggerit]

Hemet ok, parachute not so much:no::shutup:

[RJC]

I flew to Dunners are few weeks back to get a bike, no problem getting the helmet on the plane, but the overhead was too small and had to put it under my feet.

[young1]

We are currently in Europe (trip blog at http://advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=971014)

Leanne carried hers as hand luggage, on her lap New Plymouth to Auckland (wouldn't fit in overhead) and internationally in over head locker. It was in proper helmet bag)

Mike