Needles on EasyJet
Hi all
Am posting on behalf of a friend. She lives in Germany and has MS. She needs injections, so has to carry (prescribed) needles and medication with her when she travels overseas - like to the UK. The needles and medication need to be kept at ideally between 2 and 8 and degrees, although can go up to 24 degrees for a couple of hours. Thus she doesn't want to carry them as checked baggage. Lufthansa flies from Cologne to London and are perfectly OK for her to carry them in her hand baggage on production of the prescription, but they are expensive. Easyjet is a lot cheaper and also flies from Cologne to London BUT they refuse to allow her to fly with the needles in her hand baggage despite the prescription.
2 questions:-
1) Is EasyJet in the right and, if not, how to challenge it?
2) Would the hold get below 2 degrees in the first place, if she did check the needles/medication in?
Any thoughts would be welcomed