Thread: Travelling with Firearm

Had bloody good experience with Air NZ this morning when travelling south with rifle.

Booked extra bag for rifle but couldn’t get through on phone couple weeks ago due to phone over load with the wild weather disruptions they’d had.
Flicked them a message on Facebook instead and they came back to me a day later. Sent them my flight reference, firearms licence details, basic rifle description and weight of case and rifle and amount of ammo I’d be taking in checked baggage. Simple as that, they added note to booking and that was that.

Turned up at airport this morning, got given priority at special assistance desk, whacked a couple “firearm/priority” tags on rifle case and luggage with ammo and straight to oversize luggage desk and that was that.

Just had one of the toolpro cases with a couple padlocks and bolt/ammo packed in box inside luggage. No hold ups at all, all sorted within 5 minutes of arriving. The hard cases are actually on sale at the moment.

https://www.supercheapauto.co.nz/p/t...mm/566671.html

Have heard of a few people having issues in the past but that certainly wasn’t what I found in this case.