Ring and check about maximum length, as even BA were a royal pain and charged £100 each way Newcastle to London. They were even threatening not to allow it on board at all, as over 6' or something absurd.
Airline to South Seas were fine, and zero charge.
All are different, it seems.

What you should know is that I very nearly had my reels confiscated from my on board luggage, as apparently braid could have been used to tie up the whole crew!
I mean, you can scarcely make it up!

As I said, 'but glass bottles full of highly inflammable rum and brandy are just dandy?!!!'

If in doubt, just assume the rest of the world has gone mad.

 

Cheaper to buy gear where you're going,then leave it for a local lad? Lipslicker-you're a rare breed,a rich fisherman! £100 each way---WOW

 

Was either pay or leave them in the airport, and I had three rods on me for a total of about£1300.
Was proper peed off, I can tell you. Felt like daylight robbery. Like getting a parking ticket.
Not rich, and a damn site poorer after they had rifled through my pockets!
Grrrrrr.

 

Don't know about Easyjet specifically, but a lot of airlines treat fishing rods in the same category as skis, or golf clubs, and as Lipslicker says, it's prohibitively expensive. You can get round it by using multi-piece travel rods, and putting them in your suitcase, though I'm not sure how the new stricter controls will react when the x-ray machine picks up something that looks a bit like a gun! Personally, I just think they're out to make as much money as they can out of us.

 

I think it was classed as sports equipment with no specific sub category, not overly cheap £20 to £30 for trip to Glasgow. Rods were put in plastic tubes like two large carp tubes, cut and and joined together with lots of padding inside and end caps. They were 6.5 ft long.
Hope this helps.
Iain

 

Just book a small sports eqipment on line, £60 for the return trip, this covers rods in a ski tube, travel like this every year and never had a problem.

 

I've flown to Majorca 3 times with rods and never been charged by easyjet, 1st time was full size odd about 6ft tube then travel rods last 2 times. The size is the issue as they may not fit in the luggage bins in the plane hold.

 

try there customer services 8 til 8 , 7 days a week
0330 365 5000

http://support.easyjet.com/case-6781

 

book the tube as standard luggage[or an extra piece ]been via easy jet several times and no issues. BA will take luggage up to 190cm, so a standard 2 equal piece rod in a tube is just about ok, long tip you are sh****** as you discovered as they class it as freight. 2 leg trip to Fuerte' is £40 each way for a sporttube with as much kit in as can with the rods,
Reels in hand luggage apparently fine, just no lines, will report back on that as taken advice from others and trying very shortly

 

RyanAir wanted the lives of our first born to take kit for two four man teams to Belfast. Walked next door to an air freight place, because I didn't have a clue what to do next. X-rayed, certificated, insured, palleted and shrink wrapped, and went to Belfast on the same flight as us as freight. Worked out about £10 each, I think. Chanced it on the return, got away with it as hold luggage but this can't be relied upon. Yeah, the reels in hand luggage thing, they won't play - either unspool all your braid or put them in the hold.

Our pissed Para was teasing the stewards, "Ah've jumped out of aircraft safer than this, lad, it smells of death" at the top of his voice, didn't help our case at all really.

 

i like to travel as much as i can to new fishing spots and have come to realise thats its often not the airlines that are the issue, especially when taking travel kit in hand luggage.
it is in fact the jobsworth "security" (and i say security in the loosest possible term!) persons.
its a low paid job that doesn't attract the most educated in society and doesn't help that a percentage of them struggle to read and understand their own regulations (which they often term rules! "its against the rules mate!")
i found it best to contact the airport authorities (and all differ although they should abide by the same regulations) and get an email or letter confirming you can carry rods/reels (and yes in fact line) in your carry on luggage.
However as i have discovered even with this things are never guaranteed, especially if little Adolf has had a bad day or Helga has pms
As a result if I'm carry gear i always turn up with at least an hour or so to spare in case i have to go at it with one of these neanderthals.

DISCLAIMER....
Ok not all airport security operators are Neanderthals but it seems that most surviving neanderthals are either airport security or traffic wardens

 

i like to travel as much as i can to new fishing spots and have come to realise thats its often not the airlines that are the issue, especially when taking travel kit in hand luggage.
it is in fact the jobsworth "security" (and i say security in the loosest possible term!) persons.
its a low paid job that doesn't attract the most educated in society and doesn't help that a percentage of them struggle to read and understand their own regulations (which they often term rules! "its against the rules mate!")
i found it best to contact the airport authorities (and all differ although they should abide by the same regulations) and get an email or letter confirming you can carry rods/reels (and yes in fact line) in your carry on luggage.
However as i have discovered even with this things are never guaranteed, especially if little Adolf has had a bad day or Helga has pms
As a result if I'm carry gear i always turn up with at least an hour or so to spare in case i have to go at it with one of these neanderthals.

DISCLAIMER....
Ok not all airport security operators are Neanderthals but it seems that most surviving neanderthals are either airport security or traffic wardens

Yeah, I know where your coming from on this one, I can't take two disposable cigarette lighter in my carry on but it's ok to give one to my wife. Once had half a roll of gaffer tape confiscated but the same idiot said nothing about the 200m of 550 paracord that I had in my burgeon.

They should sack these wannabe's and give their jobs to people who actually know how to do the job.

 

I have given up trying to get anything resembling a fishing rod over 3ft long in a suitable tube on a plane anywhere in europe..the aggro from airline Hitlers is just too much trouble. I now have two travel rods that fit inside a cricket bag,along with reels, and end gear, all wrapped in clothing.I never bother with sinkers as they can always be bought or made wherever I end up.

Its funny, but I have had less trouble and expense travelling anywhere outside the EU with a Bazuka tube containing rods etc.


Dave