 Poster: A snowHead
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Off with Crystal to L2A on Saturday. Paid for pre-bookable ski-carriage, but just now reading the small print:
- Weight allowance for ski carriage: 6kg.
OK. Out with the scales.....
- Salomon Crossmax skis (1m62) + lightweight graphite poles: 6.1kg
Hmm. Might need to put them in a bag:
- Single sportube: 3.4 kg.
How on earth can Crystal be selling ski carriage where the weight allowance is actually less than a pair of fairly short/light piste skis and graphite poles? What do they expect tall skiers to do, or skiers with fat off piste skis? Don't they want skis to be put in a bag?
Has anyone else come across this, and any experience of whether this ridiculous limit is actually enforced at the airport?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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That does seem silly.
Just weighed my Rossi Z9s (154cm) and they come in at 5.5kg.
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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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PaulClark, Not hit it myself, but sounds like typical TUI group bolleax to me 
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Obviously just ski carriage for teenage kids and not adults.
We went with Inghams this year on a last minute thing and didn't spot anything.
It is all just crazy stuff.
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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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PaulClark, That's been in the TUI small print for years. The only time I've seem them check on skis was in Dec 06 (at Bristol) and that was just to make sure that there was only one pair of skis per bag.
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jtr, Good to know. Thanks.
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I'm sure it was 8Kg when I went in January.
But I have never yet known them weigh the skis.
Maybe they are assuming that people don't reallly need the standard 20Kg for other hings, so you canb use part of that for the skis 
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Neilson have upped the allowance for a ski bag to give you an additional 10kg on top of your normal allowance per number of ski carriages booked. - http://www.neilson.co.uk/FAQ.aspx . I'm not sure what Crystal offer, but will find out on Sat when I fly from Stansted to Grenoble. I'm taking two pairs of skis, each with full metal 916 bindings (bloody heavy) and plates, and my bag with just the two pairs of skis and a pair of poles in it weighed in at 15kg in Feb.
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PaulClark, Flew with Crystal earlier this year and noticed the 6kg limit. I phoned them and pointed out that my skis weighed 6.2kg and the SportTube another 3kg. Told not to worry and that the low limit was to stop people filling ski bags with clothes etc to get arouynd the 20kg luggage limit. They said that as long as a ski bag/case only contained one pair of skis and poles there would not be a problem.
Hope that helps.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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JP - and everyone - Thanks. Over all, sounds like it's not going to be a problem.
And if it is, I'll have very good grounds to get Crystal to refund any charges levied at the airport.
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FAQ
they don't seem to worry
