 Poster: A snowHead
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As I unfortunately only possess two arms, I was looking at buying a ski bag that could hold my skis, my boots and my gear. Something like this which looks brilliant.
However, I'm worried about how airlines will react to this. Standard weight limit for airline luggage is 20 kg. Ski stuff you book in separately for an extra cost, in this case twice because of boots and skis. By putting this all into one container I'll have something that presumably weights more than 20kg and contains two sets of ski stuff, so I'm thinking they'll probably throw a fit and not let me on without charging me a lot of extra money.
Which is why I thought I'd turn to you lot to see what experiences you have with this type of thing. The bag would make my life so much easier, but if I can't get it on to planes then I guess I have to continue to cover myself with bags and gear. The EB team use them, so I assume they get them through airports ok, but I'd rather be safe than sorry, for all I know they pay off the airline.
Thanks in advance.
[s]EDIT: Sorry about the link, for some reason it won't turn it into a URL?[/s]
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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The heaviest single bag you can check in is 32kg, once you've paid any horrendous excess fees of course. This is set by the baggage handlers health & safety and not the airline.
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ghettoperson, Welcome to 
Speaking as a comitted 'drive to resort' person.
Getting ski's and boots under their alloted weight limit is usually difficult enough. I'm sure having everything in one bag wouldn't fit their baggage allowance model.
I'm not sure if there are any 'ski friendly' TO's or budget airlines left!
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My bag had board, skis, bootss and clothes last week. It was 28kg.
We also had a 21kg suitcase.
No problem at all on easyJet.
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I understand the predicament of not having enough hands, but having everything in one bag looks equally problematic. For example, if the bag weighs over 25kg, excess baggage charges aside, how easy is it going to be to lift? How many car boots is it going to fit in once you've managed to get it off the ground? Size isn't always everything. Sometimes it's easier to distribute the load...
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andytb, if you fly BA then the heaviest bag you can take is 23kg before you start incurring a excess charges.
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My ski bag loaded weighs 31kg. You can be lucky as most airlines don't weigh the ski bag. I got caught on the way back from Calgary, no problem on the way out from Gatwick. I'd paid for 2 lots of ski carriage, but there were 4 sets in the bag. They tried to hit me with the single ski bag allowance of 13kg, irrespective of the fact that I'd paid for 2 bags. So 18kg @$20 = $360. Got it down to 5kg, so $100 in the end. Haven't had any problems for years in the past though, maybe just Canada is more vigilant.
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| queen bodecia wrote: |
| I understand the predicament of not having enough hands, but having everything in one bag looks equally problematic. For example, if the bag weighs over 25kg, excess baggage charges aside, how easy is it going to be to lift? How many car boots is it going to fit in once you've managed to get it off the ground? Size isn't always everything. Sometimes it's easier to distribute the load... |
It's wheeled, so the majority of the time it should be easy to move around. The rest of the time I'll just have to suffer dragging it's huge weight around. I'll weight all my ski gear though, see about how much It'd be over. I suppose I could always bring a holdall with me for most of my clothes, it's more just about trying to find an easy way to move skis, boots and clothes around, and if I can get boots and skis into one bag that'd be a lot easier.
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I suggest you just use a conventional ski bag/box and a wheeled holdall that's big enough to hold everything else. Only two arms required.
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I really can't see the issue.
One wheelie bag for clothes and boots, one ski bag slung over the shoulder.
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One big bag is loads more trouble when trying to fit it into the car (or train) or lifting it on or off the bus or carousel.
Bootbag (over shoulder) ski bag in one hand, roller bag for luggage in the other has always worked for me. No bag over 15kg so easy to lift/carry and no complaints from airlines.
If you don't like carrying three bags around the airport they have this cool invention, freely available (sometimes for a £1 deposit) called a 'luggage trolley' 
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You know it makes sense.
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roga, Can I quote you "BA are a nightmare" over on the Ryanair thread? 
(This is the same Ryanair who while nominally limiting you to a 15Kg check in bag, if you've paid for skis they don't even weigh the ski or boot bags so you could be well over 32kg without worrying).
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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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^ LOL, I've never touched Ryanair and have no intention of going near them for a ski flight (or probably any other sort of flight!) - I'm sure they are a hell of a lot worse than BA, certainly that's what I've gathered from comments here and elsewhere.
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Poster: A snowHead
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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 am not taking my large ski bag with me on my next trip as she has had a few days away with her mates already.....and now it's my turn.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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^^ Interesting what you say Axsman, I've never gone out of my way to avoid them, rather I've been able to find flights to the same or better destinations just as, or almost as, cheap so have never been tempted.
If there was no alternative I'd give them a go I guess but yes, the negative press has put me off 'risking' it I have to admit!
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I flew on a BA charter flight. I had:
Small, cheap, nasty backpack for hand luggage containing thermals, gloves, goggles, fleeces, ski pants, socks, toothpaste and other valuables.
Ski bag containing lots of other things: 17kg.
Boot bag containing everything else: 7kg.
What's the problem? Luggage trolleys are brilliant.
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Frosty the Snowman,
Me and 'er indoors will just be cruisin' the blues and tasting the fare that lech can provide. Looking forward to it immensely.
Never been to Radstadt but the piste map looks a bit like Maria alm, nice friendly little Austrian resort, where no doubt, Beer, Pear Williams, schnitzel and DJ otzi can be found in abundance - what more can one ask?
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Just a note of caution.
I saw the same bag on the Ellis Brigham web site and went down to the Manchester shop to buy it. The shop assistant asked me if I wanted to have a look at it before buying it and on opening I thought it was a lot smaller than I had imagined.
It will take 2 sets of skis and poles but I would doubt you would get much more in such as clothes and boots.
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Just done some weighing, and skis are 3.2KG a piece, boots are 2.9KG a piece, so that's 12.2KG total. Poles are fairly insignificant, so that fits under the ski bag limit. Rather than get the massive Ellis Brigham bag and stuff everything in there, what about a Dakine Fall Line Double? I'll then just bring a holdall with me for what I can't fit in the bag. I saw it recommended on this forum when I did a search. Only slight issue may be that it says it's 190cm, and my skis are 188cm. Think that's enough margin for error?
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188cm skis?? Jeez, I didn't think they made them any more except for downhill racers...
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SCollier1, I've got one and I've had two pairs of skis + bindings + poles + two boards + bindings (unmounted) + all my outerwear for a week and still had no issue with closing the zips . . . left my balls on the carpet when I tried to lift it, but skiing without sacrifice wouldn't be skiing  Weighed 41Kg
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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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queen bodecia, mine are 191 . . . however, having seen your comment in another thread that's one thought I'll not be barking about 
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Masque, I used to have 185 skinny skis back in the days of such things. Sigh...
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You know it makes sense.
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They're powder skis, but I'm also pretty tall, 195cm.
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FAQ
) but since they happened to be the only carrier with decent flight times to where I wanted to go i tried them this year and found their service to be very good. no frills but no nasty surprised and if you pay the ski carriage charge then in practice you get a HUGE luggage allowance, all for less than the BA cost. Checkout the 'ruinair' poll, a lot more 
