On our recent flights to Greece we've done the sensible things and kept scissors, corkscrew, swisscard etc in our main luggage not carryons. BUT Herself had to fly to Edinburgh on business this week, takes only carry-on bag and had her tiny manicure scissors confiscated but they let her steel tailcomb (with a potentially lethal 3" "tail") through. If she had wanted to attack the pilot, the comb would have been more dangerous than the scissors. Then on the plane, of course, they served wine in glass bottles!

RtS