A British holidaymaker is fuming after having to abandon his holiday in Malta to fly back to the UK to pick up his missing luggage. Keen scuba-divers, Kevin Openshaw and David Ayre, had booked a two-week diving holiday in Malta through EasyJet and were looking forward to spending a week diving off Malta's shoreline and exploring some of the deeper wrecks from the Second World War.
But when they arrived in Malta on Sunday, May 8, they discovered that one of their bags containing a vital piece of diving equipment, a rebreather, was missing. They reported the missing luggage to airport security staff who soon discovered it had been held at Manchester Airport as the bag was believed to contain a diving cylinder "and nothing else".
With airport staff refusing to send the bag out to Kevin and David, Kevin felt forced to fly back to the UK - midway through his holiday - to claim the equipment. He told ChronicleLive that the missing bag contained a £6,000 rebreather only, with no cylinders or compressed air vessels - and he had already paid an additional £180 for sports luggage allowance to transport it.
