Hi Gerhard,
I ran into the same problem over a year ago when i was taking the flight from Beirut Airport to Dubai,
the security guy did not allow me to take the reel as a carry on, I tried to explain that the spool and the line are in the luggage but he insisted that the reel need to be checked in with the luggage , he end up calling one of Emirates representative that took me aside smiled at my face and let me go, after that incident I check in all my reels in the luggage..
Tight lines
Sami
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Well your reply, together with other similar replies of anglers checking in their reels did concern me Sami
Especially that I had incidents with other things that got broken or even taken from the bags, this wasn't recently, but I'll have a heart attack if that heppens to my Stella!!
One year ago most people said it is better to keep them as carry on(without line) and that they rarely have problems with that
Now I can see many checking the reels
I traveled with reels only once and I had no problem, That is really one tough decision