Well, it’s only been in the air a few days, but the Vatican’s charter airline (run by Itlay’s Mistral Air) is already facing issues the other airlines have been dealing with for years. In this case, it’s the ban on liquids. Pilgrims who spent hours waiting to get holy water from the grotto at the Shrine in Lourdes were told at the gate that they couldn’t bring the holy water on their return flight if it was in containers larger than 100ml.
As reported by the BBC, “Francesco Pizzo, Mistral Air’s president, said the company had to respect international regulations on the matter.”
While many passengers were, of course, disappointed, the airline did give holy water in small bottles shaped like the Virgin Mary to everybody on the flight.
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