 Poster: A snowHead
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| Richie_S wrote: |
"sports equipment is considered separately and not included in the combined weight allowance of hold luggage".
"Just to clear things up, the weight of your sports gear is part of the total weight allowed for checked-in bags".
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Clear as mud!
Canadian, rather than UK law... but Air Canada has just been told by the courts that a) if a chatbot says it, it becomes part of the contract, and b) if the chatbot contradicts other Ts and Cs, the chatbot can be viewed as "correct". https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/15/air_canada_chatbot_fine/
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@snowdave, exactly. Completely contradictory - in the same email.
I’ll continue to follow up, til this is resolved properly. For now, it would appear they have admitted they owe a refund.
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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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Is there any experience in booking the "large" 32KG sports equipment addition, to cover skis/snowboards which are usually identified as "small" 20kg?
https://www.easyjet.com/en/help/baggage/sports-equipment
Previously I have selected "Snowboard" which has max 20kg - but last year I also got stung at GVA on the return as it was 22kg, and I had to pay excess.
This year I have instead identified my hold luggage as "Windsurfer" which is under the 32kg column.
I cannot see - is there an actual requirement that the sports equipment I am carrying is physically that which I identified it as at purchase? My 'windsurfer' is actually a 'snowboard'. 
Anyone had GVA/easyjet check the contents of the bags?
(22kg snowboard bag as I pack mine and gf's boards/bindings/boots etc all in one bag..)
Last edited by Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see? on Fri 20-09-24 13:15; edited 2 times in total
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@_SNOWHE_AD_S, 22kgs? What do you use a barn door?
I’ve never had anyone look in a ski bag but have always booked a”ski bag” and brought something that looked like a ski bag. Doubt if they’d be interested though if you have a windsurfer or not in there.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@_SNOWHE_AD_S, i did it a couple of years ago with EJ, flying out of Gatwick to GVA, i was worried my (roller) ski bag with all my clobber in as well was going to be overweight, and paid for the 32kg.
just checked it in at the self service desks at Gatwick, then wheeled it down to the oversized baggage drop off, no one batted an eye lid
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Thanks, sounds like I should be alright taking my "wind/snow/surf/board" bag and no one will care. 
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-whats inside?
-its a s-cough-board 
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Hello,
Does anyone know if a helmet clipped onto a hand luggage bag would be accepted by Easyjet to take into the cabin? I swear I've seen people do this before but didnt know if there are set rules?
I'd rather do this than put it in my large cabin bag to save space.
Thanks.
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| dh900 wrote: |
Hello,
Does anyone know if a helmet clipped onto a hand luggage bag would be accepted by Easyjet to take into the cabin? I swear I've seen people do this before but didnt know if there are set rules?
I'd rather do this than put it in my large cabin bag to save space.
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Fine when we've done it on EJ, but not for a few years.
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@ster, Thanks, i'll do this then.
If the cabin crew moan, i'll just stick it on my head! 
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flying back via Lyon sunday night, someone actually had their helmet on their head at boarding LOL
had a skibag with 3 sets of skis in, just over 20kg limit....no one batted an eyelid.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| dh900 wrote: |
Hello,
Does anyone know if a helmet clipped onto a hand luggage bag would be accepted by Easyjet to take into the cabin? I swear I've seen people do this before but didnt know if there are set rules?
I'd rather do this than put it in my large cabin bag to save space.
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I noticed people had done this at Bournemouth airport for an easyjet flight a good number of years ago (our first post lcokdown ski holiday the Feb half term when in france anybody not double vaccinated needed to be tested daily and Italy wouldn't allow anybody not double vaccinated). They had no issues. However suspect more attention was on various hoops to allow people to travel (mask wearing, testing evidence and vaccine status) than baggage rules!
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There were plenty of people hanging them on their rucksack when I came back from Geneva at the weekend.
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You know it makes sense.
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@stevew, Good to hear, I guess it depends if you get a sh*tty cabin crew or boarding gate staff who may have a moan about it. Hopefully not.
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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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Just back from skiing. Booked my huge decathlon ski bag as a 32kg hang glider after seeing mentioned on this thread. Packed everything in it, then just a rucksack carry on. Self tag at both ends then oversized luggage so no questions asked whether it was actually a hang glider.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Sharing my experience with "surfboard" 32kg as skibag, flying from Innsbruck, had a quite a confusion at the drop off desk, as far I understood, it showed them as "large snow equipment" (despite small show equipment they see everyday), looks like they dont see this too often, the girl at the desk were calling a manager to confirm which weight limit it had. After thumbs up from the manager, all went well. Will use this again.
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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'll be taking a "surfboard" between Birmingham and Geneva in January, so will report back on how that goes.
Flew out with regular 20kg snowboard allowance last week and self-weigh wasn't open so had to queue for the only counter that was available at BHX. Glad I got there slightly earlier than the "2 hours before departure" that it was scheduled to open as wouldn't have had much time to get through otherwise.
Coming back through Geneva, arrived at easyJet section just over 3 hours before departure and was allowed to proceed to bag drop straight away, despite app saying it would only be available from 2 hours before. Much more civilised and sensible.
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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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It's probably mentioned already but booking it as a surfboard might cause issues of the bag were to go missing, although same can be said if you have more than one pair of skis in there.
If you're booking a hold bag as well then the new system of adding weight in 3kg increments can be useful as you can pool that allowance into the ski bag. E.g book 26kg hold bag and 20kg skis, take a 23kg hold bag and 23kg skis.
The bigger issue I have is the scales working similar to my luggage scales. I swear the ones at the airport are rigged. When I loaded my bag on Saturday it showed as over the allowance, I took something out and it showed as heavier! Then I took the bag off and put it bag on and it was within the weight.
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| GuyrillaMonsoon wrote: |
Coming back through Geneva, arrived at easyJet section just over 3 hours before departure and was allowed to proceed to bag drop straight away, despite app saying it would only be available from 2 hours before. Much more civilised and sensible. |
I think thats depends on the airport, Innsbruck last week, I approached the boarding desks 15 mins before 2h window, and been advised to come back 15 mins later, despite 3 desks completely free, no queues. Surprisingly, after 15 mins, a lot of people arrived, and we been waiting no less than 1h queueing at security checks, (only 2 lines open) and yes that was middle of the week. This was first time in a while, when I got into the boarding and its already been started, despite arriving at the airport 2.5h before the flight.
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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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| SnoodyMcFlude wrote: |
It's probably mentioned already but booking it as a surfboard might cause issues of the bag were to go missing, although same can be said if you have more than one pair of skis in there.
If you're booking a hold bag as well then the new system of adding weight in 3kg increments can be useful as you can pool that allowance into the ski bag. E.g book 26kg hold bag and 20kg skis, take a 23kg hold bag and 23kg skis.
The bigger issue I have is the scales working similar to my luggage scales. I swear the ones at the airport are rigged. When I loaded my bag on Saturday it showed as over the allowance, I took something out and it showed as heavier! Then I took the bag off and put it bag on and it was within the weight. |
Yeah, I'm actually one of those people who've cautioned against this risk before, but having observed how the sports and oversized luggage are treated and processed, and heard enough tales from others as to how they've got on, I'm willing to give it a go.
I'm not booking a hold bag too either and as I'm away for 10 nights on the trip in question, and will be staying next to a slope for a change, I'm keen on taking a second freestyle-focused board and a bit more clothing than I normally do for my 4-5 day trips, but not really wanting to cope with a board bag and suitcase.
Time will tell whether I will regret my decision!
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| ed48 wrote: |
| GuyrillaMonsoon wrote: |
Coming back through Geneva, arrived at easyJet section just over 3 hours before departure and was allowed to proceed to bag drop straight away, despite app saying it would only be available from 2 hours before. Much more civilised and sensible. |
I think thats depends on the airport, Innsbruck last week, I approached the boarding desks 15 mins before 2h window, and been advised to come back 15 mins later, despite 3 desks completely free, no queues. Surprisingly, after 15 mins, a lot of people arrived, and we been waiting no less than 1h queueing at security checks, (only 2 lines open) and yes that was middle of the week. This was first time in a while, when I got into the boarding and its already been started, despite arriving at the airport 2.5h before the flight. |
It definitely seems to be an airport-related decision. My guess is that as BHX uses Swissport staff at check-in, Easyjet don't want to pay for them for any more time than absolutely necessary.
The check-in staff at Geneva, however, appear to be employed by EasyJet and as they're already there processing way more flights, it makes sense not to restrict passengers to the tighter two-hour window. I could be wrong though.
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@GuyrillaMonsoon, On 14 December EasyJet were strictly enforcing the 2 hour rule for checking in at GVA - you couldn't go forward to the check-in area earlier than 2 hours before your flight.
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Good to know, thanks @fuzzydunlop
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@GuyrillaMonsoon, are you back from your trip yet? Curious to see how Geneva treated your "surfboard"?
In same situation with skibag being 22kg at mo.
4 pairs of skis in....2 adult, 2 kids in decathlon bag.
Could remove bindings into other luggage and may squeak past at 20kgs but don't really want to!
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@SnoodyMcFlude, pretty sure easyJet specifically say you can't pool weight on sports equipment.
Ie you can pool all peoples normal hold luggage weight but not specific sports equipment.
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@dfhage, what did they charge you for 2kg extra ski bags?
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| noodlehat wrote: |
Could remove bindings into other luggage and may squeak past at 20kgs but don't really want to! |
Well why not just do that and save yourself the stress, I do that most every trip with the four pairs I squeeze in.
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@noodlehat, you can, I've done it many times and was told by their customer services that's the way to do it. What it seems you can't do is take weight from the 20kg ski bag.
E.g if you buy 23kg hold bag and 20kg ski bag, you can travel with a 23kg ski bag and a 20kg hold bag, but you couldn't have a 15kg ski bag and 28kg hold bag
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You know it makes sense.
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@SnoodyMcFlude, interesting. Thanks.
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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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| fuzzydunlop wrote: |
| @GuyrillaMonsoon, On 14 December EasyJet were strictly enforcing the 2 hour rule for checking in at GVA - you couldn't go forward to the check-in area earlier than 2 hours before your flight. |
Hmmm... on Friday 10th January, I was allowed to check in / bag drop 3 hours before departure at Geneva.
Wasn't terribly busy at that time though.
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Poster: A snowHead
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| noodlehat wrote: |
@GuyrillaMonsoon, are you back from your trip yet? Curious to see how Geneva treated your "surfboard"?
In same situation with skibag being 22kg at mo.
4 pairs of skis in....2 adult, 2 kids in decathlon bag.
Could remove bindings into other luggage and may squeak past at 20kgs but don't really want to! |
No, not yet. I fly back with my "surfboard" this coming Friday.
However, I almost had an issue getting it out from Birmingham, which admittedly was not helped by the fact that it was initially a couple of kilo over the 32kg allowance.
I took bindings out to get it down to 32kg, but had to point out a couple of times that I hadn't booked a 20kg skis / sports equipment allowance, but the large 32kg sports equipment allowance.
The other Swissport employee who didn't seem particularly bothered about actually logging in to help his colleague process the various people looking to drop their bags did start to tell me to open my bag, but thankfully the initial staff member who was serving me printed out my label and sent me off to Oversized Luggage as normal.
However, I then had to back bottom around switching stuff between my carry-on and my checked luggage (having made a point to tell the oversized luggage staff member what I was doing) as nobody could tell me whether I'd be allowed to take bindings in my carry-on.
One person said yes, the other said no and that it would ultimately be "security's" decision as to whether it was allowed and if it wasn't, I'd then have to come back to the desk to check them. So I erred on the side of caution and moved stuff around until the weight was back to what it had been calculated to be at the desk.
I'll try to make things slightly simpler at Geneva on Friday by having the board bag weighing no more than 32kg, but will let you know how it goes there.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I always carry spare [race] bindings in my hand baggage and no one cares. They occasionally ask me what they are, but they can see that they are obviously not dangerous.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| phil_w wrote: |
| I always carry spare [race] bindings in my hand baggage and no one cares. They occasionally ask me what they are, but they can see that they are obviously not dangerous. |
What material are they?
I assume they were unsure of the material composition of my bindings and worried it might send the metal detectors crazy, but I'm pretty sure that it does state that "sports equipment" shouldn't be part of your carry-on.
I've never seen that rule applied to helmets, ski / snowboard boots or swimming goggles though!
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Have taken my bindings as hand luggage for years and have never had issue. They are steel body. They opened bag but more interested in my coffee maker.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I thought I would for sure be stopped at security on my last trip as I had ski combination locks, battery packs with a multitude of cables etc in my hand luggage which must've looked dodgy on the scanner, not a peep!
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@noodlehat - just dropped my "surfboard" off using Easyjet's machines at Geneva Airport
Weighed in at 32.1kg initially, so wouldn't let me print a label. Moved some stuff around, was strangely still showing as 31.4 but printed label this time.
Actually gave me the option of choosing what I wanted to check it as so chose "large sports equipment" rather than "windsurf" or anything similar to that.
Good Luck!
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