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My wife and I each flew with a bike bag Gatwick to Benidorm in January and with board bags in February to Turin. Didn't notify in advance and wasn't problem either time.
We did fly City-Geneva in December with board bags and notified in advance via the chat as those Embraers are small!
*goes off to plant some trees*
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| TJToms wrote: |
I think it's pretty clear when I decided to check up on this for next year:
https://www.britishairways.com/content/information/baggage-essentials/sports-equipment
** You can take skiing or snowboarding equipment as part of your checked baggage so long as the bag is within 190 x 75 x 65cm.
Skis and snowboards must be packed in a protective bag and can be in the same bag as your boots or clothes.
If you pack your boots separately from your skis or snowboard, your boot bag can be carried as your larger piece of hand baggage if it's within the correct dimensions. If it isn't, it must be checked in and will count as an extra checked bag.
As soon as you have made your booking, let us know that you’re bringing your snow sport bag, especially if you know that you are on a popular snow sport route. Your snow sport bag is more likely to travel with you if you tell us in advance and at least three days (more than 72 hours) before you fly.
A snow sport bag is an oversize or out-of-gauge bag so check your snow sport bag in and drop it off at the out-of-gauge baggage belt no later than 90 minutes before your flight departs so it is more likely to travel with you **
So unless I'm mistaken simply add it as hold luggage then phone them. A tad painful to have to phone them to tell them it's oversized, but better than them not loading it for some reason due to an overfull aircraft hold |
I managed to do it through the online chat too - was a bit of fun trying to get past the chatbot to get an actual agent, but once I did it was a breeze. A good diversion to a particularly dull Teams call 
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Flew to Tokyo the other week and completely forgot that this was a thing (although did take the time to notify them about the airbag). Didn't have any issues at either Heathrow or Haneda, just the usual "you have to go to excess baggage" etc.
I guess it's just in case they have all ski bags, but has anyone ever had a flight where luggage is declined because the plane is full?
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| SnoodyMcFlude wrote: |
Flew to Tokyo the other week and completely forgot that this was a thing (although did take the time to notify them about the airbag). Didn't have any issues at either Heathrow or Haneda, just the usual "you have to go to excess baggage" etc.
I guess it's just in case they have all ski bags, but has anyone ever had a flight where luggage is declined because the plane is full? |
Interesting you should say this. We were once delayed over 2 hours with a Crystal flight when the plane was too heavy with luggage. It took them that long to decide the easiest resolution was to take off the hot drinks trolley 
At least the luggage wasn’t removed so bonus, but no hot drinks for the flight was moaned about from loads of passengers (not me btw).
What would people rather have, their equipment or a cup of tea in the air. It’s only 2 hour flight FFS!
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| SnoodyMcFlude wrote: |
Flew to Tokyo the other week and completely forgot that this was a thing (although did take the time to notify them about the airbag). Didn't have any issues at either Heathrow or Haneda, just the usual "you have to go to excess baggage" etc.
I guess it's just in case they have all ski bags, but has anyone ever had a flight where luggage is declined because the plane is full? |
I’ve had a Swiss flight that was overweight, and we had a “choice” of six passengers volunteering for offload and a later flight, or half the bags being offloaded. We had a whip round in the gate lounge until the pot was big enough for six guys to volunteer to get a flight three hours later.
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It must have been a very small plane if half the bags equated to the weight of six passengers. Rather I assume the choice was weighted to force it to be passengers choosing their own to be offloaded rather than half the bags.
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My experience on the BA flight from LGW to TRN yesterday was totally uneventful. I booked a hold bag, turned up, checked in with smallish ski bag (under 190cm) and all was fine. YMMV with a bigger ski bag.
Another snowhead on the same flight said that he’d notified them by chat and that was all pretty simple and quick.
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I booked a hold bag, turned up, checked in with smallish ski bag
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How much did the hold bag weigh? How much did your ski bag weigh?
OH has just tried to add one pair of skis to our booking. Our e ticket says we have 23kg luggage allowance each. Chat person said to OH that skis can be taken so long as luggage and skis combined weight not over 32kg but as our e ticket says our allowance is 23kg, here's betting BA will try and charge us extra at check-in. Previously paid the £65 each way for extra baggage. My skis weigh about 9kg (bag within specified dimensions), my packed roller duffle usually about 21kg max (boots and helmet in there).
Now wondering whether to put £130 towards ski hire in resort and leave my skis at home.
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Our e ticket says we have 23kg luggage allowance each. Chat person said to OH that skis can be taken so long as luggage and skis combined weight not over 32kg but as our e ticket says our allowance is 23kg,
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Crossed wires somewhere? The max weight of any single bag is usually 32 kg.
You should be entitled to two hold bags each of no more than 23kg each (if any bag is more then it’s overweight then you pay more for that bag). You can swap one or both with ski bag(s), again each of no more than 23kg but also within the ski bag dimensions for l h & w than BA set. See their website for these.
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The max weight of any single bag is usually 32 kg.
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Info on our e ticket:
London to Venice 1 handbag/laptop bag, plus 1 additional cabin bag 1 bags at 23kg (51lbs)
Venice to London 1 handbag/laptop bag, plus 1 additional cabin bag 1 bags at 23kg (51lbs)
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You should be entitled to two hold bags each of no more than 23kg each
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This is an economy flight - I think the 32kg might be for a higher class of flight
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I recently flew BA to Basel. Booked economy plus baggage allowance was as per the economy option plus 1 hold bag max 23 kg. I took my boots and helmet as hand luggage and my skis as hold luggage without notifying them. My non skiing partner used her 23kg hold bag for most of our clothes etc. You get 2 at 32kg hold luggage if you travel business.
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You know it makes sense.
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Agree re chat bot/agent - have tried to convince OH who engaged with them (especially re: ""British Airways’ 23kg baggage weight limit applies to each bag and can’t be split between multiple bags")- he said if they charge at the airport he will pay. My understanding is that BA class skis in a ski bag as a piece of checked hold luggage. Unlike with Swiss who just take skis/boot bags anyway with no extra fees.
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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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Last year we paid for one extra bag between us and put both pairs of our skis into a Dakine roller bag.
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Poster: A snowHead
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I am a regular BA flyer and you just check in ski bag (or bike box) so long as it does not exceed 23kg. I fill them with clothes and take boot bag hand luggage. Just check in at seal and take to oversize luggage.
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@ster, BA apparently do not allow pooling of luggage allowance, especially between two people. So if you have 2x23kg you can't take one of 20 and one of 25.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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BA doesn’t allow any item to weigh over 32kg. That doesn’t mean your allowance is 32kg on a standard economy ticket, it’s generally 23kg unless you’re flying club, or have sufficient frequent flyer status.
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@SnoodyMcFlude, actually I think you can take it, if you pay extra for the overweight 25kg bag, but why would you arrange your packing to have one 20 & one at 25.
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@ster, sizing. My last trip I had a ski bag which was packed and only weighed 16kg. The suitcase had space but was on 23kg.
Yes could have taken it by paying more, but that's a bit of a scam really imo.
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BA also have a very generous hand luggage allowance of 23kg, which allows an overall weight limit of 46kg per person.
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| Oblos wrote: |
| Agree re chat bot/agent - have tried to convince OH who engaged with them (especially re: ""British Airways’ 23kg baggage weight limit applies to each bag and can’t be split between multiple bags")- he said if they charge at the airport he will pay. My understanding is that BA class skis in a ski bag as a piece of checked hold luggage. Unlike with Swiss who just take skis/boot bags anyway with no extra fees. |
Yeah BA are explicit about that - no free separate boot bags. But they also acknowledge you can take boots in your cabin allowance.
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I phone them selected option 3 as per instructions and after 4 tries of every time getting an automated message and text giving me the rules i already knew about, i sent a complaint about the instructions to call. As others have said, if they need ti know they need to make it easy (possible in my case) to do that. Having said all that i got on 2 BA flights today with no issues - just always s bit worrying when you havent / cant follow instructions and they get all jobsworthy. Apart from that just nice to take a break from EJ 
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Didn’t take skis this trip. Hired in resort. Best decision for me.
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In answer to my feedback to BA on this, they said they acknowledge the issue and are reviewing need to notify if only checked bag is a ski bag less than 180cm, so part of the free luggage allowance
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Never had a problem with BA and skis. Done it many times. See it as a non issue.
If you have Avios and go business you get two luggage items and lands up cheaper than economy - just need ot be booked well in advance
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One thing that puzzles me is how much stuff are people taking for what is usually one week's holiday? Cocktail dresses, dinner suits, different loungewear for every evening? On the basis that few take a quiver of skis exactly how hard is it to put one's clothing and liquids requirement in with them? 2x 32kg checked - possibly if you're going for 3 months in N America or Japan but a week in Meribel?
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You know it makes sense.
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@Dave of the Marmottes, IME ski (and other out-of-gauge) transport is much less reliable than bag transport so I don't put mission-critical gear in my ski bag. Generally that means it's in my cabin bag but sometimes its checked separately (I always get 2+ checked bags anyway, so there's no cost difference).
However, I agree with your "how much stuff" point overall - I have no problem getting boots and all my gear for a week into a standard rollaboard and small backpack.
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@snowdave, Oh yes. I'm aware of the redundancy point which is why I am reluctant to surrender my carryon with ski pants, boots and as much in the way of tees, socks, pants that will pack in/around the boots even at gate check.
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