rock music tours hit hard by new airline restrictions in the UK

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Emails from Fish:

It was stressful and what I didn't need was the news of the "terrorist plots" on the Thursday before we were due to leave. Suddenly everything was up in the air as far as our itineraries were concerned as all our flights to Switzerland were potentially on the ground!

Heather and Angela were supposed to fly to Heathrow that night for a 'Mostly Autumn' gig in Portugal next day. By evening the flights were gone and the gig was blown. Steve V made it to Brum that night with a two hour delay and the rest of us remained glued to the Edinburgh flight schedules as we had to fly to London City next morning on our outward journey to Zurich.

Next morning I was up at 5.30 am and off to the airport with Gavin, Tony, Andy and Frank at 6.15, all the instruments in hard cases to cope with the danger of travelling in the hold rather than the soft bags we use for taking them on as hand luggage. Our combined baggage weight went up by 50k's and we were potentially facing an extreme hit for excess luggage. If the hand baggage was added the gig would not be worth playing as we would lose money on 90k's excess across 4 flights!!!