Thread: Meat on a plane

Hey guys.

Heading on my first trip down south next month. Flying down and back but wondering if I can bring meat back on the plane? Surely it can be done.

Thinking frozen in a cheap chili bin with plenty of duct tape should be OK?

Yeap. Have had mates come down here hunting and take meat, skins etc home in polystyrene bin, needs to be secure against any leakage so bagged/vacpacked and then into chillibin, can't have ice in bin must be freeze packs or similar

I have brought meat back NSN - AKL just in a chilly bin with ice, taped closed & ask them at the counter to put a sticker on it saying "this way up" "fragile". Good as gold.

Originally Posted by Bobba

Hey guys.

Heading on my first trip down south next month. Flying down and back but wondering if I can bring meat back on the plane? Surely it can be done.

Thinking frozen in a cheap chili bin with plenty of duct tape should be OK?

Yip done it a few times meat and Cray's.
I used one of the white poly boxes the supermarket throw them away and pack with ice.

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Awesome. Thanks

Yep, as long as no leakage it shouldn't be a problem. Took 10 backstraps in a rubbish bag stored in an insulated chiller bag in carry on chch to akl, no one batted an eye.

Yeah, you'd want to seal it up well.
Last thing you'd want is the old "Enough is enough. I have had it with these mutha fuckn steaks on this mutha fuckn plane!" routine from the airline.

Yep just bought some back Nelson-Auckland on Friday.
Got those real cheap white poly cooler boxes. Bagged the meat in large zip locks. Tiny bit of ice. (Meat was already chilled down)
Taped up the box tight. Then double bagged with a black rubbish sack and more tape.

23kg std with ANZ. If you’re a frequent flyer you can normally get away with a few more kilos.

Those poly boxes arent the best, when we came back from Samoa a baggage handler must have dropped one and the carousel was partly covered in a layer of leatherjackets and fish slime.

I hunt down south all the time. We shoot reds a couple of hours from chch airport. I often bring meat off the hill and straight to the airport in carry on. Last time I had so much the x-ray wouldn’t penetrate the bag so they manually searched it, no worries. Air NZ are well used to hunters.

Not a drama at all. Mother in law always goes back up north with a bag of venison, and a few pauas/crays, etc. Even flown back to Aussie with boned out vacuum packed venison. Never been an issue


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Just flew back from Queenstown with meat - had it in a meatbag double wrapped then in a black rubbish bag (cooled already). Was no issues mate.