 Poster: A snowHead
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Hi KLM website specifies special luggage = 1 set skis, poles and boots I want to take bag with 3 sets skis and poles does anyone have any experience?
cheers
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@barnsleybob17, 3 or 4 years ago I took a double ski bag with 3 pairs of skis instead of my checked bag. That was fine. Can't comment on skis as an additional item of checked luggage, other than that most airlines won't check what is in the bag but will probably only cover 1 set if the bag goes missing.
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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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I have flown with skis with KLM a lot. Most likely they will weight your ski bag and if it is over 20 og 23 kg you will have to pay for the extra weight. It is not how many ski you bring along, but the weight of ski bag. I brought 2 skis some years ago and had to pay in Geneva.
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We used klm for our trip to Japan in February. Between the 3 of us we took 2 bags of 23kg in the hold, two pairs of skis in a hard carrier that weighed less than 20kg in lieu of a third checked in bag, which they allow, another ski bag, a boot bag, 3 max size carry on bags and two small carry on bags. We only paid extra for one set of ski equipment. It was exactly as said in their rules. They don't care about how many skis you have, just the weight.
Very nicely they even checked our big carry on bags into the hold for free.
The klm flight was very good. The return on air France not quite so good mainly due to us checking in at the airport not online in advance.
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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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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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KLM are fine. All you need to do is make sure the bag is in the weight limit and "declare" it in manage booking well before the trip.
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Thanks everyone my feeling was there would be no problem this seems to confirm
Cheers
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We are in a similar situation, going with Air France this January from Canada to Venice (Dolomites here we come!) Their policy is one pair of skis/poles in a bag and a boot bag can go with that.
I spent some time the other day chatting with them on Messenger as there is no other way to reach them except by phone with no written records. It did not matter. They kept repeating the above.
Our ticket allows us only one checked bag each so the skis and boots would be that for each of us. But we would be stuck carrying two ski bags, two boot bags and two carry on bags.
I kept asking if we could put two sets of skis in one bag (under 23 kg.) and then have another regular checked bag under 23 kg. They just kept saying one pair of skis/poles per bag. I would prefer this because we other checked bag would have wheels and there would be only one ski bag to carry.
Air France and KLM are the same company now. I would love to risk doing it the way I want (one bag for two sets of skis and one other bag.) I think we would be fine for our flight from Halifax as this is with WestJet and they allow two sets per bag. However coming back from Venice we would be really in trouble if they don't allow this. We would have not extra bag to pack skis even if we were willing to pay 350 Euros for another bag.
Does anyone have any experience with Air France and skis?
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@maryannns, I've taken a double ski roller bag on Air France as my checked baggage. No issues, not questioned. Was a couple of years ago but I doubt it will have changed.
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That is very good to hear, mgrolf. Thanks for posting.
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FAQ
Think it was well over weight by around 7 kg, and so were the rest of the bags. Had to unpack at the check in desk to get it under weight 
