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[AloisAmrein]

So the best is to avoid the U.A.E. and boycott the Emirates Airline. If they are loosing a lot of customers and visitors, these ignorants may change the policy. Thanks for the information, next time I will NOT fly with Emirates.

[Chivas]

AloisAmrein, on 2012-01-05 21:35:04, said:

So the best is to avoid the U.A.E. and boycott the Emirates Airline. If they are loosing a lot of customers and visitors, these ignorants may change the policy. Thanks for the information, next time I will NOT fly with Emirates.

No need to boycott anyone......

Any doubt than just pack your meds in checked luggage....Its not difficult.....People do not get jailed for four years for having legal prescription medications prescribed by your own GP no matter what some believe on this thread.

Edited by Chivas, 2012-01-14 20:25:47.

[richard_smith237]

Chivas, on 2012-01-14 20:25:09, said:

AloisAmrein, on 2012-01-05 21:35:04, said:

So the best is to avoid the U.A.E. and boycott the Emirates Airline. If they are loosing a lot of customers and visitors, these ignorants may change the policy. Thanks for the information, next time I will NOT fly with Emirates.

No need to boycott anyone......

Any doubt than just pack your meds in checked luggage....Its not difficult.....People do not get jailed for four years for having legal prescription medications prescribed by your own GP no matter what some believe on this thread.

Yes they do !!!... read the stories again.

Can you ensure you have never inadvertently stepped on a joint and accidentally carried it stuck to the bottom of your shoe ?
Ever had a bun with poppy seeds? did some of these seeds ever fall off onto your jumper ?
Ever travelled with prescription meds but forgot the prescription. A woman was stuck in jail for 4 months before they accepted the prescription her doctor faxed through.

Although I've never had and issue and do not know anyone who has had an issue, I now I have to get extra doctors letters if I'm to travel through the emirates with anything more than paracetamol.

Their regulations and harsh enforcement of minor misunderstandings and otherwise easily explainable and dispensable issues are handled in such a Machiavellian manner the only decent response would be to boycott their airlines - However, I fly Etihad because the prices are so good, I'm just extremely careful when I do.

[TheKeeNok]

Reminiscent of a Sinefeld espisode.  I often fly through the UAE.  What I find utterly ironic is that many of the middle easterners, mostly Iranians, who get caught in BKK with KILOS of crystal meth tranisted through the UAE.  I guess the high tech detection system only works for dope the size of a grain of sugar.  Retarded!

I generally found the UAE customs and Etihad Air workers to be arrogant and smug.  Really, what do they have to be proud of?  I can t think of anything. Oil? (UAE  doesnt have any!) Camels? Sand?  I don t get it.  But Ill still take Etihad!  LOL

[Chivas]

richard_smith237, on 2012-01-25 01:50:31, said:

Chivas, on 2012-01-14 20:25:09, said:

AloisAmrein, on 2012-01-05 21:35:04, said:

So the best is to avoid the U.A.E. and boycott the Emirates Airline. If they are loosing a lot of customers and visitors, these ignorants may change the policy. Thanks for the information, next time I will NOT fly with Emirates.

No need to boycott anyone......

Any doubt than just pack your meds in checked luggage....Its not difficult.....People do not get jailed for four years for having legal prescription medications prescribed by your own GP no matter what some believe on this thread.

Yes they do !!!... read the stories again.

Can you ensure you have never inadvertently stepped on a joint and accidentally carried it stuck to the bottom of your shoe ?
Ever had a bun with poppy seeds? did some of these seeds ever fall off onto your jumper ?
Ever travelled with prescription meds but forgot the prescription. A woman was stuck in jail for 4 months before they accepted the prescription her doctor faxed through.

Although I've never had and issue and do not know anyone who has had an issue, I now I have to get extra doctors letters if I'm to travel through the emirates with anything more than paracetamol.

Their regulations and harsh enforcement of minor misunderstandings and otherwise easily explainable and dispensable issues are handled in such a Machiavellian manner the only decent response would be to boycott their airlines - However, I fly Etihad because the prices are so good, I'm just extremely careful when I do.

I dont want to be pendantic but you're being ludicrous ??

Sure poppy seed(s) may come off a burger bun and stick to your shirt but you DO NOT get banged up for four years for it !!

As I said before any decent barrister would wipe the feet of a prosecutor and before you'll retort that individuals dont get legal representation than I have to dispue that also.......

If Brits (for example) were being banged up week after week with no legal recourse it would be front page news and quite simply it isn't

I walk through the Emirates with Tramadol and Codeine products in their original prescribed boxes without any fear whatsoever.....

Its only "perhaps" those that have loose "Benzos" in their bags (as an example) who could find themselves in difficulty if not prescribed.

[richard_smith237]

Chivas, on 2012-02-04 18:25:43, said:

richard_smith237, on 2012-01-25 01:50:31, said:

Chivas, on 2012-01-14 20:25:09, said:

AloisAmrein, on 2012-01-05 21:35:04, said:

So the best is to avoid the U.A.E. and boycott the Emirates Airline. If they are loosing a lot of customers and visitors, these ignorants may change the policy. Thanks for the information, next time I will NOT fly with Emirates.

No need to boycott anyone......

Any doubt than just pack your meds in checked luggage....Its not difficult.....People do not get jailed for four years for having legal prescription medications prescribed by your own GP no matter what some believe on this thread.

Yes they do !!!... read the stories again.

Can you ensure you have never inadvertently stepped on a joint and accidentally carried it stuck to the bottom of your shoe ?
Ever had a bun with poppy seeds? did some of these seeds ever fall off onto your jumper ?
Ever travelled with prescription meds but forgot the prescription. A woman was stuck in jail for 4 months before they accepted the prescription her doctor faxed through.

Although I've never had and issue and do not know anyone who has had an issue, I now I have to get extra doctors letters if I'm to travel through the emirates with anything more than paracetamol.

Their regulations and harsh enforcement of minor misunderstandings and otherwise easily explainable and dispensable issues are handled in such a Machiavellian manner the only decent response would be to boycott their airlines - However, I fly Etihad because the prices are so good, I'm just extremely careful when I do.

I dont want to be pendantic but you're being ludicrous ??

Sure poppy seed(s) may come off a burger bun and stick to your shirt but you DO NOT get banged up for four years for it !!

As I said before any decent barrister would wipe the feet of a prosecutor and before you'll retort that individuals dont get legal representation than I have to dispue that also.......

If Brits (for example) were being banged up week after week with no legal recourse it would be front page news and quite simply it isn't

I walk through the Emirates with Tramadol and Codeine products in their original prescribed boxes without any fear whatsoever.....

Its only "perhaps" those that have loose "Benzos" in their bags (as an example) who could find themselves in difficulty if not prescribed.

It was and has been front page news. Because something seems ludicrous to you does not mean it does not and can not happen. Time to start thinking outside your box... Why on earth do think this is a pinned topic otherwise ?

Of course, perhaps the BBC area also being ludicrous?


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7234786.stm

http://www.telegraph...n-medicine.html

http://www.thenation...prosecutors-say

http://news.bbc.co.u...000/7649435.stm

http://news.bbc.co.u...ews/7276175.stm

http://news.bbc.co.u...nds/7235467.stm

[Johnniey]

dr_Pat_Pong, on 2008-03-16 09:13:22, said:

pampal, on 2008-03-12 19:02:29, said:

Avoid the UAE

Seconded.  

Only if you are a drug addict. Any medication with a doctor's prescription or labelled bottles is fine.

Emirates is a great airline and the hotels there make it a nice luxurious stopover.

[UbonOz]

I was going to have a stop In Dubai in May going to the UK, will not now.  If all written is completely true it is totally unjustified.  Would not use Korean Air either after they tried to get fully booked and paid passengers to pay more because someone in the airline stuffed up on pricing.

[Chivas]

Johnniey, on 2012-02-14 12:06:59, said:

dr_Pat_Pong, on 2008-03-16 09:13:22, said:

pampal, on 2008-03-12 19:02:29, said:

Avoid the UAE

Seconded.  

Only if you are a drug addict. Any medication with a doctor's prescription or labelled bottles is fine.

Emirates is a great airline and the hotels there make it a nice luxurious stopover.

Absolutely correct and the scare mongering on this thread borders on libel in my opinion.

[Johnniey]

I wonder what they have against Brits?

Is it only the UAE with this strict policy?

My wife has just bought a heap of cold/flu/cough medications for our kids while in the UK.

We travel through Oman -  doeas anyone know if they are as bad as the UAE?

[richard_smith237]

Johnniey, on 2012-03-11 19:11:03, said:

I wonder what they have against Brits?

Is it only the UAE with this strict policy?

My wife has just bought a heap of cold/flu/cough medications for our kids while in the UK.

We travel through Oman -  doeas anyone know if they are as bad as the UAE?

The list of banned substances is posted in the earlier pages of this thread.
It is possible that as Oman is adjacent to the UAE that many of the laws are the same. Therefore if you wish to remain perfectly safe check your medication against the list.

I have travelled through the UAE on every flight home for the past 7 years without being stopped or checked, so I don't worry too much. However I do ensure that I am within the law and double check the contents of my wash-bag / medicines pouch before travelling just incase. It's simply better to err on the side of caution.

To those who say this is scare mongering or its just ‘druggies’, I disagree, there have been reports of people who have been jailed unfairly as a result of possessing prescription medication without the prescription or medication which in the UK is non-prescription.

Thus it pays to be careful when travelling through the UAE (and Middle East) hence the pinned topic !

[Razzler1973]

It's not only UAE, the whole region will is the same.

UAE doesn't have any oil? Are you joking, there is tons and tons of it in Abu Dhai, who do you think funded Dubai's 'expansion'? Big brother Abu Dhabi and banks!

[Razzler1973]

Chivas, on 2012-01-04 01:41:48, said:

Jesus any half decent barrister would destroy any prosecutor claiming an individual is in possession for having a poppy seed in a shirt or a sugar grain sized lump of cannabis on his shoe ??

Unfortunately half decent barristers aren't allowed in this part of the world, you can only be represented in court by a local Arab so there are plenty of law firms and even big UK law firms but they can't actually go to court with you, only hope to be recommened someone who isn't an idiot but tribal lines are strong and so is family influence here.

Dragging something out as long as possible and hoping it goes away if a big legal tactic

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