Howzit Guys, We travel quite a bit from Dubai to Muscat, Salalah, Maldives and Seychelles and you cannot take any form of line, leaders, reels with line on the spool, flyreels nothing. This is mainly on the middle east airlines like Oman Air, Emirates, Ettihad, Qatar Air, Gulf Air. You might get away with it once or twice but they will catch you and make you go back and check it into luggage or if you are in a rush or not so lucky you will have to leave the line behind which can be a bugga up. We have had clients going to Maldives that they have made them cut off all the line off all the reels in front of them! Not a great start to the trip......
We have found that we can take big poppers, stickbaits and jigs in our hand luggage, we do get stopped and just say it is fishing equipment and they normally wave you through. So does not really make sense. But please if you do get stopped do not argue with the guys, UAE and Oman is basically military states and they don't take any crap even if you are in the right. We have learnt the hard way. Just agree with the guys and try make another plan. But best is to check everything through in luggage.
Hope this helps a bit, if anyone has any queries or needs any additional info send me a PM.
Cheers,
Nick