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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued the following tips to help air travelers accommodate and assist the heightened security measures implemented since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.  Travelers should note that they will now be limited to one carry-on bag and one personal item on all flights.

Items prohibited from aircraft cabins:
The following items must be placed in, or transported as, checked baggage or risk confiscation.  When in doubt, transport item in checked baggage 

• Knives of any length, composition, or description.
• All cutting and puncturing instruments. This includes pocketknives, carpet knives and box cutters, ice picks, straight razors, metal scissors, and metal nail files.
• Corkscrews.
• Athletic equipment that could be used as a weapon, such as baseball/softball bats, golf clubs, pool cues, ski poles, and hockey sticks.
• Weapons — firearms, ammunition, gunpowder, mace, tear gas, or pepper spray.
• Aerosol spray cans — hair spray, deodorant, insect repellant, or butane fuel (such as in curling iron refills, scuba tanks, propane tanks, cartridges, and self-inflating rafts).
• Explosives — fireworks, sparklers, or signal flares.
• Flammable liquids or solids — fuel, paints, paint thinners or cleaners, lighter fluid, a perfume (no more than 16 oz.).
• Other hazardous items — dry ice, gas-powered tools, wet-cell batteries, camping equipment with fuel, radioactive materials, poisons, infectious substances.
• Cutting instruments of any kind and composition, including carpet knives and box cutters (and spare blades), any device with a folding or retractable blade, ice picks, straight razors, metal scissors and metal nail files.
• Leave gifts unwrapped. Airline security personnel will open gifts if the X-ray scan cannot determine the contents
• If in doubt, don't pack it.

  Permitted items:

• Pets (check with airline for procedures)
• Walking canes and umbrellas (once inspected to ensure prohibited items are not concealed)
• Nail clippers
• Safety razors (including disposable razors)
• Syringes (with medication and professionally printed label identifying medication or manufacturer's name) 
• Tweezers
• Eye lash curlers

Information compiled from the Federal Aviation Administration.