Lifejacket gas cylinders on planes

SHUG said:
As the plane has an automatic lifejacket for each seat it seems illogical to restrict the passengers from carrying their own .
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Depends on the airline and the captain. Its about as illogical as charging the same fare for a slim person and an absolute bloater whilst doing excess baggage according to weight - but who ever said life should be logical. If that was what was intended, God would never have invented women.:)
 
In case of use to anybody else, after looking through all of this we managed to take our lifejackets on both EasyJet and RyanAir flights today.
The RyanAir site still says they are permitted, Easyjet implied only if gas cylinders under 28g - whereas the old 150N jackets we took had 33g cylinders. So we phoned their customer services line, which was answered very promptly - and eventually were given a verbal approval to take with us (though strongly doubted the person know what they were)
So with cylinders removed they came through as hold baggage without issue, at least in our case. I put a print of the RyanAir site in the bag with the cylinders, plus a note with the EasyJet approval, in case bag got opened
 
Damn! I just assumed they would be banned with the security hysteria so I jettisoned the gas cylinders in the UK and bought (overpriced) ones in Greece. I will know next time.
The irrational airline security regulations are one of my grumbles. No nail clippers allowed - but metal cutlery on the plane????? Nonsense aboabout taking toothpaste, (presumably because it could be liquified semtex) and yet my sons have travelled with those bouncy super balls.
Good to know that common sense has prevailed with LJs.
 
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