Traveling with Fountain Pens: How do they fare on plane rides?

Travelling for holidays? This is for you.

I was worried about travelling with my fountain pens as I had heard a few stories about leakage.

I brought a TWSBI Vac Mini to ensure I had one pen that most probably won’t leak. I added my favourite Kaweco Mellow Blue and my favourite TWSBI Diamond 580, both inked, to test how they’d behave, and two empty Kaweco pens because I was thinking of using them during my stay.

In the spirit of experimentation, I also brought a vial of ink to see how vials behaved when travelling by plane. The same ink was to be used with the Ruby Red in case I wanted to use it.

Here is the documentation from choosing my pens to unwrapping them after. I’ve decided to leave any pen I purchase in the Philippines uninked, so I can pack them away with no worries.

I hope this helps those who are a bit wary about travelling with their FPs. I know I was and couldn’t find any videos to show me how painless it could be.

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