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Bringing medication on flight

  • 18-03-2010 10:12pm
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    Has anyone any experience of bringing medication in hand luggage onboard Ryanair or Aer Lingus flights? I will need to bring meds with me including liquids & syringes. Whats the drill?


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  • #2
    Stinicker
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    Helena Abundant Campus wrote: »
    Has anyone any experience of bringing medication in hand luggage onboard Ryanair or Aer Lingus flights? I will need to bring meds with me including liquids & syringes. Whats the drill?

    I have taken Inhalers (Gas pump) and tablets on both airlines in the past without any trouble or needing to declare it etc. RE: The liquids I assume the 100ml restriction applies but there my be exceptions, a friend of mine is a diabetic and she takes her syringes on board also without any trouble although whether or not she is actually allowed to do so I am not sure!

    A GP's letter explaining need for the meds would help if anything cropped up. Best bet ring the airline and see from there!


  • #3
    ncmc
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    My husband needs to travel with quite a lot of drugs including syringes. He always carries it in is hand luggage and never declares it in advance, in all the times we have travelled, we have never been queried about it. It's amazing but the syringes never seem to show up on the X-ray machine! We have even travelled to America where they are super strict and it has never shown up.

    He always brings a GP or a pharmasist letter just to have in case he is questioned, but he has never needed it.

    I wouldn't alert them to the drugs at all, I think it only causes unneccesary hasle.


  • #4
    robinph
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    I don't understand why anybody thinks it is anything to do with the airline you are using as to what items you can carry in your hand luggage. All that the airline cares about is going to be the size and weight of it, what is actually in your bag is nothing to do with Aer Lingus or Ryanair.

    So, onto your actual question which is "Can I take medications through security with me?"

    YES

    Any medication that is needed during the flight can be taken on board with you.
    Although I did forget about a bottle of oxygen in the bit above, that you would need to tell the airline about, other than that you can take through security and on the plane no problems.

    If you happen to get a n00b security person then they may query what medications you have if it's is something odd looking on their scanner, but you can still take it on, if they try and say that you cannot then just ask for their supervisor.

    Edit: Although it is officially what you need during the flight, always take all medication on with you and do not put it in your hold luggage. Temperature changes in the hold, or just getting lost bags are not worth the hassle


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