Can I carry a lighter with me from Changi Airport on Singapore Airlines?

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(Sorry, meant to follow up on this long ago)

I still would love to receive a definitive answer (and would accept such an answer), but I can at least corroborate the other answer's observation that lighters can be allowed.

That is, I did ultimately wind up traveling with three (emptied) lighters, carried by three different people — me, and two others who were traveling with me, each carrying one — and had no trouble at all. We just put the lighters in trays with our other "pocket stuff" (keys, phone, etc.), sent the trays through inspection, and nobody batted an eye.

I was prepared, in the event that the lighters were taken, to have a very polite conversation with security personnel, to at least ask about any apparent discrepancy between policy being applied at the gate and the policy outlined on the Changi Airport web site. I have no misconceptions that I'd be able to change the policy at the gate, but rather just to learn more about the difference. But since it never came up, I never had the opportunity for that.

I also never did receive any reply from my request to the airline itself. So I still have no official word from them.

All that said, I believe in the future I will forego purchasing novelty lighters as gifts for friends back home. :) There was a lot of emotional stress involved for items of such little value.

Upvote:3

Unfortunately this will depend on the airline and the mood of the officer on the given day.

In the last two months I have travelled from Singapore 4 times and 3 times they have taken my lighter and 1 time I was allowed to keep it.

All times I was having it in my pockets as I like to smoke cigars from time to time.

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