There’s a lot of misinformation on travel with vapes online, This is because there are different rules in the US and EU, as well as different regulation for batteries, personal electronic devices as for electronic cigarettes.
Here’s what you need to do to take your vape pens and vaporisers with you in an aircraft for travel within the European Union.
- Vaporisers: You can not put your vaporiser in your checked baggage in the cargo hold. Put it in your hand baggage or on your person. This depends on the airline, KLM expects it to be put on your person. While lufthansa is okay with hand baggage. It has to be packaged securely. Turned it off, also to make sure to prevent noises. (You do not want to be suspiciously beeping when boarding) Preferably put it in a secure pouch. Just keep in mind that you might have to take it out for inspection. It has to be turned off and it should not accidentally be able to turn on.
- Cleaning: The vaporiser has to be clean on the inside when using it previously for Cannabis. Make sure that all Cannabis residue is gone and that there’s no smell. If you smoke a lot maybe get a friend who isn’t ruined yet to do a smell check. It’s not illegal to smell of Cannabis while boarding but it does not improve your experience.
- Liquids: When taking liquids, know the law of both the take off and landing country. In general the no Cannabis rule still applies. This goes for both CBD and THC. Liquids are limited to bottles of max 100ml. Put liquids together in a plastic bag. Together they can contain max 1 liter.
- Batteries: Batteries are complicated. Lufthansa states it approves “max. 100 Wh or 2 g LC per device.” with a maximum of 15 electronic devices with batteries in general. and maximally 3 devices larger than a smartphone in checked baggage. According to KLM you’re “allowed to bring 15 electronic devices with a lithium battery up to 100 Wh, and 20 spare lithium batteries or power banks up to 100 Wh.” In short, Seperate batteries need to be carried in your carry on and can not be over 100 Wh. Note that the average vape has about 6 to 10 Wh.
- Packaging Batteries: It is prefered to keep batteries in sealed packaging. Keep it away from liquids, especially aerosols and parfum. Replacement accu’s, batteries and power banks all fall under this category. It is allowed in checked baggage but not prefered by the airlines.
- Quantities: You can carry maximally 15 personal electronic devices. It is not allowed to carry amounts that convey that you are planning to commercially sell the item in the destination country. So although you might want to take 15 brand new and still packaged vapes from your favorite store it might be better to let us ship them to your destination directly.
- Defect devices: You are not allowed to take items with damaged batteries with you. As these have caused fire in the past.
- Charging: You are not allowed to charge your device in the airplane.
- Use: You may not use the device in the airplane.
- Local law: It’s impossible to state the local law for every EU country here. But check local law on vaporisers when flying with a device and liquid. Use official government websites, do not rely on store and blog pages. As these articles are often AI generated and not updated. Do not rely on a country’s reputation. For example the Netherlands has a reputation as a tolerant country on the subject of Cannabis but has very restrictive vaporiser laws. Check before you travel!
Safe travels!
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For this article we have a.o.t. referenced these official lufthansa and KLM pages on electronic cigarettes and vapes. 420vaporizers.eu is not affiliated with these companies in any way and is simply referring to these pages for informative purposes.