 Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Just to let you know about my experience this weekend flying Gatwick-Toulouse-Gatwick with EasyJet.
No issues with boots in carry on in either direction. My boots were even in a boot bag so it was obvious what they were when asked to show our cabin baggage at the luggage drop off point.
Only possible issue was with the security screening at Toulouse. They have a plastic guard with a hole before the x-ray machine to prevent over-size cabin baggage. I needed to offset my boots before they would go through. Oh, and the boot bag was pulled for a further hand search but with a smile and a nice word.
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alex_heney, I see, I've always checked mine in at the normal check in counter first, had the label stuck on the skis and then carried them to the oversize conveyor but I'll remember that if I'm over the allowance at any time.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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pulled for a further hand search but with a smile and a nice word.
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I cannot imagine anyone having a smile and a kind word if thay had to hand search my boots  , even my nearest and dearest give them a wide berth.
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Flew Eeasyjet from Liverpool to Innsbruck on Sunday and back yesterday and there were quite a few people with boot bags as hand luggage.. no EJ staff batted an eyelid...
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EasyJet Gatwick-Grenoble-Gatwick last week, one of our party had boots in a boot bag in hand luggage. No issues.
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If you have a read of the Q & A section in the SleazyJet mag in the seatback on the plane, it deffo says that boots are allowed in hand luggage as long as the bag adheres to the size limits.
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In the past few seasons we have flown Easyjet from Luton, East Mids, Stansted, Liverpool, Edinburgh & Newcastle - and each time carried ski boots in our hand luggage (Admittedly in a wheely trolley thingy...)
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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alex_heney, what about the baggage label ? who put this on the ski bag and where did you get your receipt for it ?
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You know it makes sense.
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| alex_heney, what about the baggage label ? who put this on the ski bag and where did you get your receipt for it ? |
When I've taken skis through Innsbruck, it has operated as alex_heney has described. The oversize baggage area operated, effectively, as a second check-in. The ski bags were scanned, and the oversize baggage area desk issued the labels and receipts for the ski bags after inspecting the flight tickets. It doesn't matter which order you check in; I've used the normal and oversize baggage check-in first depending on which had the shorter queue. It may have changed recently but that was they way it operated in March 09 and during my trips in March and December 08.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| rayscoops wrote: |
| alex_heney, what about the baggage label ? who put this on the ski bag and where did you get your receipt for it ? |
When I've taken skis through Innsbruck, it has operated as alex_heney has described. The oversize baggage area operated, effectively, as a second check-in. The ski bags were scanned, and the oversize baggage area desk issued the labels and receipts for the ski bags after inspecting the flight tickets. It doesn't matter which order you check in; I've used the normal and oversize baggage check-in first depending on which had the shorter queue. It may have changed recently but that was they way it operated in March 09 and during my trips in March and December 08. |
How strange, especially as I never have a flight ticket these days  and even tend to lose my email confirmation by the time I am returning from my hols. The desk behind the x-ray machine must be a normal check-in desk the same as the others with the only exception that the bag is scanned before being tagged and (possibly) weighed at check-in.
I think that system is still working because I saw a few people at the check-in desk behind the scanner
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Poster: A snowHead
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Yes, they labelled the bags and stuck the pull off part to the back of the tickets, where the normal check in desk puts the pull off part (with the duplicate barcode).
At Salzburg a few weeks ago, they had a box with sets of labels for each flight leaving that day, rather than printing them on demand, and they also gave you a slip of card with a matching barcode that you handed in to the main check in. So the oversize check in didn't have to enter your ticket details into a computer, that still only happened at the main check in.
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even though Easyjet website suggests otherwise
