Hair dyers and Straigheners on Aerlingus

SarahBM

Hi, apologies if this question has been asked before, but I was wondering if anyone can tell me for certain if you can bring a hair dryer and straightener inn your hand luggage on an Aerlingus flight from Shannon to London?
Ive looked on the website for Aerlingus and Shannon but cant find a mention of hair dryers and straighteners. even online people say different things on different sites like Yahoo and Answers.com.

so if anyone here is a frequent flyer with Aerlingus or to the UK and you know, please let me know. the last thing I want is to get my hair dyer and GHD taken off me.

mikedragon32

You can take them on in carry on or checked luggage with no worries!

undo

This has been asked here before. If you search the forum for GHD, I am sure you will find some old posts on the topic.

The good news is: You are 100% perfectly fine bringing both a hair straightener and a drier. They are not listed anywhere on the Aer Lingus website because there is nothing special about them. You can bring all sorts of electric/electronic toys... you could bring a toaster, or a lamp, or an iPod or what not... nobody could list them all. They are simply all allowed.

SarahBM

thanks a million!!

Stinicker

OH took a hair straighner in her carryon cabin baggage many times this year and we flew on Qantas, Aer Lingus, SouthWest and Ryanair all without any problems. Never heard anything about hairdryers or straighteners being an issue. Just watch out for the voltage issue with them if you use them in 110v country like the United States.

SarahBM

Thanks.
Im only going to England. its gas like, you think that they would be listed under the electronic equipment section along with laptops and DVD players and things.

hopefully I wont have a problem.

Dacian

If the straightner is gas powered I don't think it will be allowed on. The device itself is merely an electric item but a gas canister could cause a problem.........it might have to be disconnected and checked in or not carried at all.

Have a look at the EI baggage rules, http://www.aerlingus.com/travelinformation/baggage/#d.en.1372
under prohibited items it states:
"Gas & gas containers e.g. Butane, propane, acetylene, oxygen - in large volume
Fireworks, flares in any form and other pyrotechnics (including party poppers and toy caps)"

SarahBM

Dacian wrote: »

If the straightner is gas powered I don't think it will be allowed on. The device itself is merely an electric item but a gas canister could cause a problem.........it might have to be disconnected and checked in or not carried at all.

Have a look at the EI baggage rules, http://www.aerlingus.com/travelinformation/baggage/#d.en.1372
under prohibited items it states:
"Gas & gas containers e.g. Butane, propane, acetylene, oxygen - in large volume
Fireworks, flares in any form and other pyrotechnics (including party poppers and toy caps)"

I never heard of hair straighteners having gas in them. its a GHD that you plug in like.

undo

Dacian wrote: »

If the straightner is gas powered [...]

I think you misunderstood a Hiberno-English phrase there, "it's gas" = "it's funny". This has nothing to do with the device being gas powered .

lil_lisa

Dacian, you've made my day :P ha ha!

Dacian

I'm not used to seeing slang being typed!
And have never had to use a hair straightener, my missus has dead straight hair so doesn't even have one.

"its gas like"
"that you plug in like"

Please tell me you are from Cork with speech patterns like that?

SarahBM

Dacian wrote: »

I'm not used to seeing slang being typed!
And have never had to use a hair straightener, my missus has dead straight hair so doesn't even have one.

"its gas like"
"that you plug in like"

Please tell me you are from Cork with speech patterns like that?

Sorry for the confusion "lads" (LOL) I am from Cork.

that gave me such a laugh. anyway, Im sure it will be fine.

thanks for all the advice (and the laughs)

thesimpsons

SarahBM wrote: »

I never heard of hair straighteners having gas in them. its a GHD that you plug in like.

my daughter has a gas hair straightener/curler. great for weekends away or emergency repair work apparently. Tiny little gas canister. She never had any problems carrying it on board.