 Poster: A snowHead
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I'm flying to Lyon soon and have noticed EasyJet has no weight restriction on hand luggage. Therefore I'm planning to take my boots onboard. Has anyone else done this recently? My bootbag is easily within the volume quoted, but is not quite the same dimension specified by Easyjet...
Thanks
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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nuttyprofessor, they probably wont let you take your boot bag on board !
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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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Wear your boots on board if you're worried about excess luggage. Should give everyone a laugh, tee hee. 
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If it fits in their little holder there will be no problem, but do you really want to carry round your bootbag. Stick the boots in your hold baggage, keeping it under 20kg of course and stick the displaced clothes in a backback that will squeeze into any shape required.
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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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I flew easyjet before christmas and there was a chap on the plane who had no less than 4 bags. 2 of them appeared to be bin bags! His 'Hand' luggage and the 3 coats he was wearing took up one entire luggage compartment.
I've no idea how he got that past check in!
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I wasn't allowed to take mine on as hand luggage, but they did check them in for me without counting them in the weight allowance, when I insisted that they were hand luggage. i think it's something to do with the potential to be an "offensive weapon" 
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We had a strange experience at Newcastle airport last Winter when we flew with Easyjet. It was before they chared extra for the skis and had a 10kg 'sports equipment allowance'. We checked in as normal, and were told to take both skis and boots to the oversized baggage place. My boots were in the pockets either end of my holdall, so they could be checked in with everything else. Hubby's were in a boot bag, so they then tried to charge him excess baggage, even though our total baggage weight was well below the limit. Eventually they saw sense, and waived the charge. When hubby took his boots over to the large baggage belt, they laughed at him.
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Elizabeth B, In my case they would have been more sensible to worry about my offensive socks. 
(But the boot liners do get a bit whiffy too).
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Goin out to Cham' in a couple of weeks time I'm intending to travel light, so was going to just pack spare clothes in the skibag and then have hand luggage only (6kg limit) - so was going to wear my (touring) boots on the plane (BA). Anyone think I'll have a problem with this?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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GrahamN, Just don't wear your ski's
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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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I'm sure you would be OK as long as they fit in the "thingy" and that they are your only hand luggage
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I fitted my boots in my backpack (no idea how I managed) with only a bit sticking out, and they let them through as hand luggage.
(Stansted, mid-Dec 05)
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You know it makes sense.
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well done if you get your boots on as hand luggage. I've never managed it
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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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As long as it doesn't look like a ski boot bag, how can they tell until you actually out it through the x-ray machine? I've now bought a Rossignol holdall which takes ski boots in the ena pockets. Plenty of room for kit in the middle pocket too.
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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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I have taken my ski boots on as hand luggage the last two times on Easy Jet. It is a plain black bag and i take no other hand luggage.
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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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Helen, What Rossignol holdall do you have that can accommodate 2 ski boots plus extras?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I've had no problems with my boots in a boot bag (as my only piece of carry-on) for several trips. I put my was bag, etc in with them.
The nearest it got to being a problem was on a flight recently where we were on a very small aircraft, and I had to take one boot out of the bag just to get it into the overhead bin.
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bnick, not as hand luggage though, this one or at least a similar one.
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| SMALLZOOKEEPER wrote: |
| Wear your boots on board if you're worried about excess luggage. Should give everyone a laugh, tee hee. |
I've worn ice climbing boots on flights before now - makes clumping through the airports a rather Herman Munster style affair.
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