I’m flying cross-country on American Airlines next week and am trying to figure out if the airline will hassle me for an Esbit stove and the fuel tabs. The stove doesn’t look like a stove and the tabs don’t look anything like a fuel canister. I figure that someone searching my bags wouldn’t know what they are, but don’t know if the smell of the burned fuel on the stove or the tabs themselves could set off sensors. Does anyone have any experience with this?
scrambler
If you check the stove, fine…usually, if they don’t search it. We fly with ours without trouble. It’s a metal box/parts. Tabs, oh hell no. You’ll get a cell mate named Bubba. Hit the search tab above and enter stove and flying int he text. We went over this a ton.
The only initial problem would be the first metal detectors take it apart and/or declare it and show the checker what it is. Scrape the used fuel crud off and wash it. Or buy one at Wally World at you place of hiking.
BW
Scrambler,BW is right.Last April I did a section hike and mailed the tabs to Hot Springs(my starting point)along with a few other things.I made sure that I shipped the box by ground with enough time to get there.Checking in at Sacramento they went thru my backpack.They found the stove and, asked about the fuel.I explained what I had done.OK with that and, the guy was amazed at the stove.On the return trip,I gave the tabs to another hiker.
With all that’s going on now with aircraft and terminals,I would follow the airlines instructions.
One point of interest.Remember several years back a company shipped propellant charged cannisters on an airliner.The cannisters ignited and caught fire in the belly cargo compartment.The aircraft ended up in the swamps of Florida.
Good luck and the best of wishes on your hike.
:cheers :cheers
Bill Harris