Barred from flying from a British airport – over a visa he didn’t need

Airlines who fear being hit by Home Office fines are stopping people with valid documentsVarun Warrier spent months planning a hiking holiday in the former Soviet republic of Georgia to celebrate a friend’s birthday. The Indian academic, who holds a British residence permit, never got further than the Wizz Air check-in desk at Luton airport. Staff told him he could not travel without a visa and refused to check him in even when he produced an email from the Georgian embassy confirming that