Fuming holidaymaker forced to fly 2,000 miles back to Manchester after 'vital' luggage left off plane
17.05.2022 - 12:05
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A British holidaymaker is fuming after having to abandon his holiday in Malta to fly back to the UK to pick up his missing luggage. Keen scuba-divers, Kevin Openshaw and David Ayre, had booked a two-week diving holiday in Malta through EasyJet and were looking forward to spending a week diving off Malta's shoreline and exploring some of the deeper wrecks from the Second World War.
But when they arrived in Malta on Sunday, May 8, they discovered that one of their bags containing a vital piece of diving equipment, a rebreather, was missing. They reported the missing luggage to airport security staff who soon discovered it had been held at Manchester Airport as the bag was believed to contain a diving cylinder "and nothing else".
With airport staff refusing to send the bag out to Kevin and David, Kevin felt forced to fly back to the UK - midway through his holiday - to claim the equipment. He told ChronicleLive that the missing bag contained a £6,000 rebreather only, with no cylinders or compressed air vessels - and he had already paid an additional £180 for sports luggage allowance to transport it.
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Kevin, from Gateshead in the North East, explained: "I had to go back and get it because the second part of the holiday cost £1,000 and if I didn't have my unit that part of the holiday wouldn't have happened."
David, also from Gateshead, added: "We didn't know that the case was missing until we got to Malta airport and it wasn't on the carousel. Up to that point we had had no communication from anyone saying we haven't been able to send your bag. The only way we found out was from Malta security people who had to email
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