It weighs next to nothing and can easily fit in a handbag. I'm trying to avoid having any luggage to check in.
Hope this doesn't get geeked but, duh, is a little travel iron considered a deadly weapon? It's not 'sharp'.
Here is a page from Tiger Airways, who only give a Singapore number to ring pre travel.
Passengers are not permitted to carry the following articles into the security restricted area and the cabin of the aircraft but may be contained within checked baggage if local regulations allow for their importation:
Pointed/edged Weapons & Sharp Objects
Pointed or bladed articles capable of causing injury, including: axes & hatches, arrows and darts, crampons (grappling iron, hooked bar of iron, or plate with iron spikes used in mountaineering), harpoons & spears, ice axes & ice picks, ice skates, lockable or flick knives with blades of any length, knives, including ceremonial, religious and hunting knives, made of metal or any other material strong enough to be used as a potential weapon, meat cleavers, machetes, open razors and blades (excluding safety or disposable razors with blades enclosed in cartridge), sabres, swords and swordsticks, scalpels, scissors with blades of any length, ski and walking/hiking poles, throwing stars, tradesman's tools that have the potential to be used as a pointed or edged weapon, e.g. drills and drill bits, box cutters, utility knives, all saws, screwdrivers, crowbars, hammers, pliers, wrenches/spanners, blow torches.
Blunt Instruments
Any blunt instrument capable of causing injury, including tennis rackets, baseball and softball bats, clubs or batons - rigid or flexible - e.g. billy clubs, blackjacks (truncheon of leather covered lead with flexible shaft), night sticks & batons, cricket bats, golf clubs, hockey and hurling sticks, lacrosse sticks, kayak and canoe paddles, skateboards, billiard, snooker and pool cues, fishing rods, martial arts equipment, e.g. knuckle dusters, clubs, coshes, rice flails, nun-chucks, kubatons, kubasaunts.
With effect from 31 March 2007, new regulations on checked baggage will affect passengers flying to and from Australia.
The rules cover:
» all liquids including beverages, soups and syrups
» gels, including hair and shower gels
» pastes, including toothpastes
» creams, lotions and oils
» contents of aerosol cans, including sprays, shaving foam, deodorants
» mascara
» liquid-solid mixtures
» any other item of similar consistency
Specific regulations:
» all items mentioned above will only be allowed in cabin baggage if they are kept in containers with volumes of not more than 100 ml each.
» These containers must be carried in a clear, re-sealable plastic bag. The total volume of the bag must not exceed 1 litre.
» One person is allowed to carry only one such plastic bag.
» The bag must be removed from cabin baggage and presented to security personnel at the checkpoint for separate x-ray screening.
Medications and special dietary requirements, including baby formula:
» Are permitted in cabin baggage
» may be subject to additional security checks
Duty-free purchases:
» Passengers can still take on board items purchased after the screening point, including duty free.
Passengers may still carry on board the things they would normally take in carry-on baggage, such as cameras; personal music devices; books; and clothing.
Existing restrictions for carry-on baggage remain the same.
The following items will not be carried in any part of any Tiger Airways aircraft and cannot be carried in passengers checked or carry-on baggage:
Guns, Firearms & Weapons
Any object capable, or appearing capable, of discharging a projectile or causing injury, including: All firearms (pistols, revolvers, rifles, shotguns, etc.) Replica and imitation firearms, Component parts of firearms (excluding telescopic sighting devices & sights), air pistols, rifles and pellet guns. Signal flare pistols, Starter pistols, Toy guns of all types, ball bearing guns, industrial bolt and nail guns, cross bows, catapults, harpoons and spear guns, Animal humane killers, stun or shocking devices, e.g. cattle prods, ballistic conducted energy weapons (laser), lighters shaped like a firearm.
Explosives and flammable substances
Any explosive or highly combustible substance which poses a risk to the health of passengers and crew or the security/safety of aircraft or property, including: ammunition, blasting caps, detonators & fuses, explosives and explosive devices, replica or imitation explosive material or devices, mines & other explosive military store, grenades of all types. gas & gas containers, e.g. butane, propane, acetylene, oxygen - in large volume, fireworks, flares in any form and other pyrotechnics (including party poppers and toy caps), non safety matches, smoke generating canisters or cartridges, flammable liquid fuel, e.g. petrol/gasoline, diesel, lighter fluid, alcohol, ethanol, aerosol spray paint, turpentine & paint thinner, alcoholic beverages exceeding 70% by volume (140% proof).
Chemical and Toxic Substances
Any chemical or toxic substances which pose a risk to the health of passengers and crew or the security/ safety of aircraft or property, including: acids and alkalis, e.g. spillable "wet" batteries, corrosive or bleaching substances - e.g. mercury, chlorine, disabling or incapacitating sprays - e.g. mace, pepper spray, tear gas, radioactive material - e.g. medicinal or commercial isotopes, poisons, infectious or biological hazardous material - e.g. infected blood, bacteria and viruses, material capable of spontaneous ignition or combustion, fire extinguishers (excepting as authorised by fire protocols and as aircraft emergency equipment).