Good afternoon,
Has anyone done the above? I am hearing that even if you are just connecting, you need an Ethiopian firearm permit? You have to exit, transit to another location, check guns and reclose then make connection. Is this true? How big of a pain? Our connection is only 2hrs.
Thanks in Advance

When transiting through Addis, the usual procedure for me was that an ET employee held a sign with my name on it as soon as I disembarked the plane. They would then escort me to a small room where all the luggage was processed. Ethiopian police would then verify the serial number and import/export docs along with the form you fill in for the airline. I usually make a 10 copies of all my paperwork and I just give each official one set. Once they checked the import/export docs. The other time they just verified the serial number as per the airline form.

Didn’t take long at all. The ET airline staff is with you all the time. They even fast tracked me through immigration.

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Originally posted by MD375:
When transiting through Addis, the usual procedure for me was that an ET employee held a sign with my name on it as soon as I disembarked the plane. They would then escort me to a small room where all the luggage was processed. Ethiopian police would then verify the serial number and import/export docs along with the form you fill in for the airline. I usually make a 10 copies of all my paperwork and I just give each official one set. Once they checked the import/export docs. The other time they just verified the serial number as per the airline form.

Didn’t take long at all. The ET airline staff is with you all the time. They even fast tracked me through immigration.

I had the same experience. I rode a bus that nobody else was on to where they check, even held the plane for me to get back. I enjoyed flying Ethiopian Air, other that having to fly out of Washington.

So you have to go through immigration as well?

I'm thinking of doing the same thing except into Vic Falls. I've heard no bad reports.

I had a bad experience. Not sure what happened, but my guns never made it to Harare. Got taken down to the little room with guys w guns. My guns werent there. They asked me where they were, etc. Got a little tense and I told them I wanted some names and badge numbers, mentioned i was a lawyer, and they politely escorted me back to the plane. No guns in HRE.

On return, same deal. Got taken from the jetway back down to the same room. Guns were there on the ground. We opened them up, etc. I was escorted back. This time, they were nothing but nice. My outfitter (myles mccallum) had been on the phone during my hunt raising hell. Maybe that helped?

Anyway, its worth it to just fly to JHB on delta premium select and use Airlink. Way better experience IMHO. The night at the JNB isnt bad in the Intercontinental. Coming home is straight thru.

Although, I havent taken guns thru JNB...yet. That may be different.