Quote Originally Posted by skinwiz View Post
I don't think anyone can do anything where this is concerned in respect of 'any carrier can refuse to carry anything or anyone for any reason provided it's not based on unlawful reasoning . With air weapons it's quite simply a pressure vessel and as such no one is obliged to carry them .
I agree it stinks and I'm no where near ever going to any event anywhere I'm just a paper puncher for fun as it were , but I did work for a courier company dealing with this type of problem on a daily basis .
I'd be interested to know what arrangements were in place for Olympics and commonwealth games , there may be a case for discrimination etc if Olympians have no problems but the common man does .
I'm pretty sure the Welsh squad have flown with sleazyjet several times - apparently they're normally the easiest to get on with. They charge for everything including sports equipment, but that keeps life simple because you book, turn up, check in, fly. As opposed to BA who supposedly carry sports equipment free as the national carrier, but whose desk staff will toss a coin on the day to decide whether or not a rifle is sports equipment, whether they're going to let you check it in complimentary that day, or whether they're going to give you a 3-figure excess baggage charge per case, at which point everyone on the squad has to start pooling their cards to work out who's going to pay for what and throwing apologetic glances at the growing queue of travellers behind them.

Not sure what they do with air rifles and pistols, but the GB and Home Nation teams fly with airguns to European and Worlds events on a monthly basis with a variety of carriers. Sounds like a numpty in EasyJet took umbrage on the day with the airggns. I don't gather it's an airline-wide policy as teams certainly have carried S1, 2 & 5 firearms with them, plus airguns in the past.