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Easyjet 'threatened to derail stem cell transplant'
The pioneering windpipe transplant carried out by doctors in Barcelona was jeopardised by easyJet when airline staff refused to allow the transportation of stem cells needed for the operation, it has been claimed.

The crucial stem cells had been grown in a Bristol lab by a team of British doctors but had to be flown to Barcelona ahead of the world-first operation last June.
Doctors claim they sought special permission for a package containing the 60 million cells used to treat Colombian mother of two Claudia Castillo, 30, to be transported from Bristol on an easyJet flight.
But staff from the budget airline allegedly refused to allow the package on board claiming that because it contained more than 100ml of fluid it "posed a security risk".
The cells, which took five months to grow, had to arrive in Barcelona within 16 hours of their removal from the Bristol lab before becoming unusable.
Professor Martin Birchall, one of the lead researchers at Bristol University, says he begged airline staff to make an exception but they refused.
"On arrival they said it couldn't go on because it would be a security risk - but I had been talking to people on a regular basis," he said.
"I was so furious, trying to explain months of work.
"The clock was ticking. We'd taken the cells out of their culture media an hour before.
"We thought about driving to Barcelona, but that would have taken too long."
A German medical student, Philip Jungerbluth, who was due to accompany the cells on their flight, came to the rescue and contacted a friend with a pilot's licence.
"Philip said he had a friend from medical school who used to fly and within a couple of phone calls he got him to leave Germany and be with us and he said he would charge us cost only," said Prof Birchall who added that without the offer the operation would have been cancelled.
The professor paid the 14,000 pounds it cost to charter a private jet out of his own pocket, though the cost was later reimbursed by Bristol University.
A spokesman for easyJet said: "We do not have any record of the passenger's request to carry medical materials on board the flight.
"However as a gesture of goodwill easyJet has refunded the passenger for the cost of his flight."