Taking a Tripod on a plane as hand luggage - anyone done it recently?

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As per title, off to London on Thursday and only taking my camera gear bag. I normally carry the tripod on my bag using the inbuilt carrier. Size wise it's within the limits, but I'm not sure if they will get funny about it. I tried speaking to Easyjet about it and might as well have asked my 4 year old daughter for all the good it done me.

The tripod is a Jessops Carbon Fibre Major (so its not a big heavy thing), anyone any experience?

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No problem taking mine through regularly on Easyjet and Egyptair.

Provided it fits in the size limit (mine does with the head removed) its OK (although obviously has to go IN the hand luggage bag.

Security sometimes want it removed so i can be x-rayed separately as there are things that look like sharp metal but ive never had an issue taking it.

FWIW, its not Easyjet's remit- its airport security and what you can/can't take is written clearly on the Direct Gov website.
 
Thanks for the link, states 'cameras and camera equiptment' are ok. When you say It has to go IN your hand luggage, I'm guessing having it strapped to the outside of my bag is a no no. One of my concerns was the small recessed spikes in the tripod feet.
 
Ive got the recessed spikes on mine and they didnt see bothered. Easyjet due to the fact hang luggage has no weight limit tend to be fairly ruthless with the size and number (1). It has to fit inside one of the crates at check-in. A bag that fits and then something hanging on the outside from my experience wont be allowed unless it fits in the size thing even with the outside tripod.


I travel a lot and have bought a wheeled case thats the maximum size EJ allow and fit my tripod in that with the head removed along with about 20kg of other stuff.
 
I've just finished a 2year 16 country trip and took a tripod on every flight with me. It was a slightly smaller travel tripod, but had the pointy feet etc, but I didnt have any problems. It's usually the air port security, but if you have a load of camera gear and a tripod, common sense prevails, but if you just rocked up carrying a pointy stick, then alarm bells will ring.
 
I take my rather large tripod onto easyjet flights as handluggage every couple of month. Never had a problem.
 
took mine to Tallinn in Dec with Ryan Air from Luton - it was in its bag strapped to the outside of the backpack and they didn't even look at it :-)
 
I just did it on a flight from LA back to England. Had no problems at all, just made sure it was well fastened to my bag.
 
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