Liza: Trying calling the FAA Consumer Hotline at 800-322-1873 (8am-4pm Eastern Time). Pursuant to Federal Aviation Regulation 108.11 (14 CFR 108, et seq) it is, and I'm summarizing here folks, illegal for any person to have accessible a deadly or dangerous weapon during a flight. There is a very well defined set of exceptions, but I fear that "weapon as cooking utensil" isn't one of them. If you want to read the reg. you can find it at http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara....00.html By all means, ask your chef friends what they do, but remember they are not in authority on this. If other cooks tell you it's okay if you show up at the airport with knives in you bag be prepared for airport security guard freak-out. One time my wife made A JOKE about having something in her bag at Logan and security went ballistic (as did I). So be careful and in this case (and only this case) trust what the government tells you. Don't take my word for it either. Call the FAA, or better yet send the knives FedEx, it'll probably cost less than ฤ. Probably money well spent. Talley ho, Adam (Edited by abbeynormal at 12:31 pm on Aug. 22, 2001) (Edited by abbeynormal at 4:39 pm on Aug. 22, 2001)