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Get your souvenirs without worries:

Reindeer horns and pine tree branches can be carried on an airplane

In the north, travelers often wonder if and how they can bring the souvenirs they bought on Lapland back home through the airplane. One possibility is to send the goods as a postal package or via Matkahuolto to either your home address or directly to the recipient.

Most goods can be carried on the plane, as long as it’s clear whether it should be packed as checked baggage or carry-on baggage.

Spare-batteries belong to carry-on baggage

According to Virpi Kuismin, Finavia’s Ivalo Airport Service Manager, air passengers rarely carry anything very amazing or abnormal that would be forbidden to be carried on an airplane.

- For example, we’ve accepted pine tree branches as cabin luggage when a customer has wanted to make a wall decoration for their home. Unfortunately, a lot of spare-batteries and power banks are removed from the cargo hold of airplanes. These would otherwise be okay to bring with you in your carry-on baggage. There’s also been a lot of incidents where we’ve had to remove jams that exceed the 100ml package limit meant as souvenirs from carry-on baggage. These would be perfectly permissible in the cargo hold, Virpi points out.

Among the international tourists, no nationality differs in what they carry on the plane.

- There’s really not much difference. For Asians, perhaps they tend to bring more food and packed lunches than European people, says the service manager.

If the baggage is packed with something that doesn’t go through, it can be packed in the cargo hold, it can be put on hold on the airport, it can be sent home through postal services, or it can be destroyed.

- It is not possible to send a package from the airport itself, but we handle the goods at the customer’s request. This is a paid service, Virpi says.