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A friend has offered use of villa near Malaga, an hours drive to Sierra Nevada ski resorts.
Flights to Malaga are cheap... As long as you don't take luggage...
Anyone have experience of wearing ski gear at baggage etc check... Including...ski boots!!?
I've heard 2nd hand anecdotes of this being done...
Has anyone actually done this- recently??
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I think wearing ski boot puts you firmly in the knob category.
Surely £40-60 for bag when you don't have to pay for accommodation isn't going to break the bank?
I can manage for a week with 'premium' carry on, I. E a wheely case and underseat carry on, which includes ski boots.
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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'd love to see the look on the accident investigator's face when he finds a fully clothed and booted skier in amongst the wreckage of the Málaga flight.
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I suspect there is good chance you would not be allowed to board wearing ski boots. They could represent a hazard in an emergency evacuation, either delaying your evac while you get them off, or damaging the slide, if still on.
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British airways explicitly mention wearing of ski boots on the plane is not allowed but that’s probably just BA for you.
“ For safety reasons you are not allowed to board the aircraft wearing your ski boots”
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I think wearing ski boot puts you firmly in the knob category.
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This, even if it's allowed. I wouldn't want you sitting next to me....
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But you could easily wear all the rest and put boots in a carry on bag.
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British airways explicitly mention wearing of ski boots on the plane is not allowed but that’s probably just BA for you.
“ For safety reasons you are not allowed to board the aircraft wearing your ski boots”
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| pam w wrote: |
| But you could easily wear all the rest and put boots in a carry on bag. |
Ding ding ding! Right answer....although I also agree that £40 on luggage is hardly a hardship if you're getting room for free.
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I'd love to see the look on the accident investigator's face when he finds a fully clothed and booted skier in amongst the wreckage of the Málaga flight.
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Wearing a crash helmet
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I got caught out at Luton airport being overweght ... I thought I could share my extra weight on my sons booking .. but they dint allow that.
I just had to take the boots out of the luggage to get it under 23kg.
I carried the boots through security and the nice ladies at Kurt Geiger gave me a huge red carrier bag to put my Salomon boots in.
Apparently anything you buy in the airport shopping area can be carried onto the flights.
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@johnE,
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Wearing a crash helmet
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God Ted, that'd be hilarious. 
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You know it makes sense.
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@MIKEUP, we're used to plenty of stupid questions on Snowheads so we'll take stupid questions at face value unless you show us otherwise
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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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This is true. Many a time I've blagged a carrier bag from Duty Free to shove my handbag in, as I haven't checked a bag in twenty years, so am technically only allowed my carry on bag. But my handbag contains the typical essentials, purse, passport, phone, Kindle etc so I prefer to have it closer to hand.
Some airports are easier going than others. The guy at Santorini airport gave me three, Faro airport had a flat ban on it.
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Poster: A snowHead
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I did wear my tele boots for an US internal flight many years ago. Just no room in my hand bag or checked luggage. Also remember someone wearing their plastic mountaineering boots on a transatlantic flight.
Wore my plastic canoe helmet a few times.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I have worn my ski helmet on the flight before.
The handling agents allowed too many "large" cabin bags onboard so, as our group boarded last, we were asked to put our hand luggage into the hold unless it would fit under the chair in front.
My backpack did fit...but only once I removed the helmet.
Most people found it quite amusing......
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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 saw someone with their ski boots round their shoulder on a easyjet flight before though I don't think they had any other carry on bags...
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About 10 years ago we skied with a guy in a catered chalet, who was only there for a couple of nights as a tag on to a business trip and he had worn his ski boots on the plane
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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 saw a bloke in a boarding queue in Zurich airport wearing ski boots. I don't know whether they let him on the plane.
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| t4tomo wrote: |
I think wearing ski boot puts you firmly in the knob category.
Surely £40-60 for bag when you don't have to pay for accommodation isn't going to break the bank?
I can manage for a week with 'premium' carry on, I. E a wheely case and underseat carry on, which includes ski boots. |
This, I put my ski boots in a wheeled carry on, and I stuff as much ski gear as I can into that. I buy toiletries at the destination, and I wear a pair of jeans and pack tops , extra jeans and undies in the under seat bag. I wear my ski jacket. This usually covers me for a week.
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I wear my ski jacket. This usually covers me for a week.
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I like the idea that your ski jacket covers you for a week 
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| biddpyat wrote: |
| ...extra jeans... |
You take more than one pair? 
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These threads always remind me of a touring trip. The Scottish guy didn't have two of anything except socks. No, not two pairs; a sock for the left foot and a sock for the right foot.
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| MIKEUP wrote: |
A friend has offered use of villa near Malaga, an hours drive to Sierra Nevada ski resorts.
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maybe is if you have a flying car, but back to the future 2 did not come true. Your looking at 3hrs with traffic
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| Corky wrote: |
| I saw a bloke in a boarding queue in Zurich airport wearing ski boots. I don't know whether they let him on the plane. |
Maybe someone could make individual boot bags, one over each boot, rubber sole, looking like a "moon" boot, Bob's your uncle.
We know someone that could sell those on another thread, along with their ribbons.
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Could wear some 1970s bell-bottomed flares to disguise the ski boots
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You know it makes sense.
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Mikeup, If you can’t afford to pay for a bag I suggest you don’t go!
Only a total knob would walk thru an airport I ski gear!
Sorry in advance for being rather frank@MIKEUP, @MIKEUP, @MIKEUP,
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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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I don't even wear my ski jacket through the airport anymore as I've ended up on the other side a hot sweaty mess more times than I care to remember.
Leave in the case accessible on arrival for the obligatory waiting around, and do the opposite on departure.
I prefer my new tactic of a normal clothes and a small bag containing my Surface, headphones, wallet, phone and passport.
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Poster: A snowHead
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| johnE wrote: |
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I'd love to see the look on the accident investigator's face when he finds a fully clothed and booted skier in amongst the wreckage of the Málaga flight.
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Wearing a crash helmet |
Nah, he'd have survived if he'd been wearing a helmet.
/ducks
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Owlette wrote: |
This is true. Many a time I've blagged a carrier bag from Duty Free to shove my handbag in, as I haven't checked a bag in twenty years, so am technically only allowed my carry on bag. But my handbag contains the typical essentials, purse, passport, phone, Kindle etc so I prefer to have it closer to hand.
Some airports are easier going than others. The guy at Santorini airport gave me three, Faro airport had a flat ban on it. |
Aren't you clever? And so much more so than everyone else. You book a fare that only allows a single carry on, and you clearly understand that condition. It will of course not cross your mind that if everyone breaks the conditions in regards to carry on luggage then two things happen; fares go up to compensate for the lost revenue from hold luggage, and there is not enough space for everyone's carry on so fares go up again as turn-around times are increased as a result of taking luggage out of the cabin and putting it in the hold. You care special, though, so it is ok for you to do this in such a dishonest way just so long as everyone else follows the conditions. And you are happy with the cheaper fares on low cost carriers, but not happy to accept there are reasons for those fares and the conditions applied are part of the business model. And don't care that many others on board will have played by the rules and paid for their luggage. And then you boast about how clever you are to cheat in this way.
Shame on you.
I hope you are reliant on EasyJet for the routes you fly, as you will now have to pay for your carry-on bag anyway. I applaud them for introducing this change for many reasons, but it is an added bonus that it will inconvenience selfish, dishonest twerps like you.
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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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sorry zikomo think you are being a bit harsh. To call somebody you have never met a "twerp" because he/she sneaks a extra bag on to a flight is pretty poor in my book.
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| WASHOUT wrote: |
| sorry zikomo think you are being a bit harsh. To call somebody you have never met a "twerp" because he/she sneaks a extra bag on to a flight is pretty poor in my book. |
I get your point. And I would agree if this was someone relating how once, in extremis, they sneaked a bag on board in this way. But the downright dishonesty of the approach, added to the frequency (over 20 years!), and then boasting about how she always takes an extra bag qualifies for the moniker in my book. Even the suggestion that the poster only does it because she needs some items to hand beggers belief - passport etc. can easily be carried in the main carry on bag.
I am glad that I have not met this person, and hope I never do.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@zikomo, nah. Are you always so sanctimonious?
I have done this very thing, myself, probably about 100 flights. Works usually a treat. It truly has no bearing whatsoever on the economics of loco airfares.
P.S: I note that @Owlette at no stage mentions whether her carry on actually has volume adequate to take her handbag 
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@zikomo, and there was me fretting about Covid 19, looming mass unemployment, economic meltdown etc etc. There is such a thing as natural justice, you don't have to do anything more than observe 'over luggaged' travellers at check-in or going through the gate to be told they have too much hand luggage. All the repacking and argy bargy between couples is great entertainment. If a handbag is just that, a bag that's kinda small and can be carried by hand, then I can't see what the fuss is about - it'll spend most of the flight on a lap or under the seat. The issue is always the overhead bins and I like to see airline staff being strict about carry-on size. And as for those who wear all their ski gear (I have only seen it a handful of times in all my years), I'd happily see them shot on the tarmac, more just to put them out of their misery.
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You take more than one pair? |
I do so I have something dry to change into. You know what it‘s like, sometimes I forget to tuck them into my ski boots so the bottoms get wet while skiing.
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Buy an Airport Jacket with ~15 pockets and carry 15 kilos / 35 pounds.
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