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New BA baggage allowances
 Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead

I got chatting to the check-in staff at a surprisingly quiet Gatwick on Friday evening. They coomented on mine being the first skis they'd checked this winter and said they had just been trained on the new baggage rules coming in to place from January. It's seems that they are going to enforce the only one item of hold luggage regulation very strictly. The exception will be one additional bag for sports equipment. This means that the rucksack plus ski bag, pus boot bag combination is no longer going to be permisible.

They said they are going to be really strict with the check-in staff having no ability to issue an additional baggage tag without taking a payment. Looks like it's time to get one of those combined holdall/boot bag thingys. The women I was talking to did not know if this would apply to bookings made before January.
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

Steve Sparks, is that just for Euro (i.e. domestic) flights?
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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?

That seems to contradict what is on their website

http://www.britishairways.com/travel/bagsport/public/en_gb

For snow ski equipment it says

Defined as : One pair of skis and ski poles or a snowboard or a monoski. Plus one pair of ski boots and bindings.

Weight allowance and Piece allowance : Snow Ski Equipment that falls within this definition is carried free in addition to your normal baggage allowance, until 30th April 2007. A maximum weight of 23kg (51lbs) applies to each bag.

Unless I'm being thick, doesn't that mean you could have separate bags for boots and skis??? Puzzled
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geetee, that's the way i'd read it and i will be testing this out on a weekend trip to chamonix in 2 weeks - i'll report back after that......
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 Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.

Wear The Fox Hat, It was a euro check-in and I didn't ask whether it applied to long haul.

geetee, and Roger C, They said it was a new system coming in to effect from January. I didn't have a problem checking separate boot and ski bags, but they mentioned it to me as a friendly word to the wise.
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