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I see that it is not possible to include ski carriage as part of their flight booking. There web site suggests booking the ski carriage directly with the airline after booking the holiday. This leaves open the risk of finding that the airline refuses ski carriage due to their allocation being full or some other reason.
Has anyone found a way to avoid this risk?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@JimboS, SW are simply booking agents when you take a flight with them. Have you considered booking your own? I assume SW make a mark up on the booking although I may be wrong.
If you book with SW I believe you can go in to your airline booking and add the skis manually yourself.
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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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@Boofont, I've checked that and found the Sunweb price for the flights is much lower than booking direct with the airline.
However taking the hit may be worth it to ensure that I can book on ski bags.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@Boofont, I think you are missing my point. Airlines do not have unlimited space for ski bags and these are limited on busy flights.
Fine if booking many months in advance however we are now only weeks ahead my travel dates.
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@JimboS, just trying to offer advice mate.
Who's the carrier? Think they use EJ and Jet2? If that's the case it's unlikely to be a plane full of skiers with skis. Can't you go to make a booking with the airline right before you book with SW? Try to see if you can add skis? I would say it's a fair bet that if you can add them then that if you book with Sunweb you can immediately add skis then.
Alternative if there's more than one flying. Book all but one on SW, then the remaining person book via the carrier and book all the skis on that booking.
I'll leave it to you.
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It's a jet2 Edinburgh to Innsbruck in March, pretty sure everyone in board will be heading out on a ski holiday. Thanks for your suggestions.
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In the unlikely event that you can’t book ski carriage, just hire in resort.
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EasyJet I would not be worried about at all. They have never run out of space in my experience.
Jet2 could have that issue though, assuming they are still running the weird configuration planes (I think they convert easily to a cargo layout). There customer service is normally pretty good though, so I would just give them a call and ask the question.
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| JimboS wrote: |
@Boofont, I've checked that and found the Sunweb price for the flights is much lower than booking direct with the airline.
However taking the hit may be worth it to ensure that I can book on ski bags. |
Interesting, when I looked before, I have generally found better prices doing my own flight bookings. Maybe it is dependent on route or have they improved?
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We're going Manchester Geneva March 15th, booked last week with Sunweb. You need to go onto Jet2 manage my booking and add ski carriage to your flight.
I don't know exactly how it's done as Mrs Sinner doesn't trust me with anything remotely as complicated as flight arrangements, but I think she needed a booking reference which isn't your Sunweb reference, it's the Sunweb/Jet2 reference.
We flew Jet2 Manchester Verona a few weeks ago, booked through Inghams and had to phone them for the reference number.
Usual disclaimers about only one pair of skis per bag etc. ignored without any problems.
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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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| JimboS wrote: |
@Boofont, I've checked that and found the Sunweb price for the flights is much lower than booking direct with the airline.
However taking the hit may be worth it to ensure that I can book on ski bags. |
Interesting, when I looked before, I have generally found better prices doing my own flight bookings. Maybe it is dependent on route or have they improved? |
We prefer to book independently but the last few years we haven't managed to get close to the package offers we've had.
There are only 2 of us and we usually book quite late, outside of school holidays, which helps.
Our January trip to Madonna through Inghams was well over a grand cheaper than we could have done an equivalent hotel DIY. Our most recent DIY was in 2023 and we tacked a few nights in Verona on the end which we couldn't have done with a Crystal package!
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| Sailbad the Sinner wrote: |
| NickyJ wrote: |
| JimboS wrote: |
@Boofont, I've checked that and found the Sunweb price for the flights is much lower than booking direct with the airline.
However taking the hit may be worth it to ensure that I can book on ski bags. |
Interesting, when I looked before, I have generally found better prices doing my own flight bookings. Maybe it is dependent on route or have they improved? |
We prefer to book independently but the last few years we haven't managed to get close to the package offers we've had.
There are only 2 of us and we usually book quite late, outside of school holidays, which helps.
Our January trip to Madonna through Inghams was well over a grand cheaper than we could have done an equivalent hotel DIY. Our most recent DIY was in 2023 and we tacked a few nights in Verona on the end which we couldn't have done with a Crystal package! |
Ah could be time of year, we are 4 and school holidays. I did a quick quote for our 12 - 19th April trip with flights (we jidt booked accommodation) and the with flights for Gatwick are £1900 on top for us! We have Lufthansa flights booked from Heathrow
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