 Poster: A snowHead
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Then you should be prepared to wear your skiboots & helmet onto the plane. Otherwise just stick em in your hold luggage...
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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 would suggest that the days of wearing ski boots on board are long gone.
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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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frank4short, I must, I must.
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
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Mike Pow, Why?
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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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elf & safety?
metal in shoes?
can't see the security folk letting you clip clop to the plane.
snowboard boots I would suspect are fine
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A ski boot can make a very effective weapon. End of.
Last edited by You'll need to Register first of course. on Thu 28-01-10 12:04; edited 2 times in total
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I had to admire the nerve of a couple walking up to the door of the plane in Bristol at the weekend with hand luggage and a pair of loosely carried ski boots each.
Their outraged faces when they were told they couldn't take them on board (not even if they wore them) was priceless.
The world would be a much better place if everyone read Snowheads (albeit a weird world)...
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martski, remind me to never fly out of Bristol, their security seems to have that West-country-laid-back-hammered-on-cider quality about it which, while a great thing in normal cases, doesn't seem applicable to airport security.
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Mike Pow, Dr John, If it were security, then the days of carrying them in hand luggage would also be "long gone". Wearing them is no different AFAICS.
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| Dr John wrote: |
| martski, remind me to never fly out of Bristol, their security seems to have that West-country-laid-back-hammered-on-cider quality about it which, while a great thing in normal cases, doesn't seem applicable to airport security. |
Agreed.
They actually let us fly with my wife carrying a pair of full size metal knitting needles in hand luggage in September 2007.
We asked at check in, where they weren't sure, so phoned security, who said yes.
When we then appeared at the security screening area with them, they weren't going to let us through until we mentioned that the check in people had phoned through to OK it. They then had a little discussion, looked at us, and obviously decided we didn't look dangerous, so let us through. 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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frank4short, in fairness to the accused, I now know I'm OK to stick me boots in my carry on in a couple of weeks. Something I've never done before.
It also means I'll be well under my main bag allowance; so I'll probably look to take two pairs of skis instead of one.
If you don't ask, you don't get. 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| Mike Pow, Dr John, If it were security, then the days of carrying them in hand luggage would also be "long gone". Wearing them is no different AFAICS. |
I've been stopped at the Heathrow check-in desk from taking ski boots in a bag as carry-on.
That is why I no longer fly in or out of Heathrow with ski gear.
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Mike Pow, which airline?
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You know it makes sense.
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Mike Pow, unlucky, I've never been prevented, either in hand baggage or wearing them. BA, SAS and Swiss. Last used LHR Dec 2008 (BA), Mar 2009 (SAS).
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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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BA and Luftansa
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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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| Dr John wrote: |
| A ski boot can make a very effective weapon. End of. |
And a litre of spirits or the many other things you can buy in duty free whislt air side having gone through security don't make an equally effective weapon ?
Come to think of it, my hands make a very effective weapon if I roll them into a ball and whack someone across the nose, perhaps security would like me to stop taking those through as well ?
Security is a farce of contradictions these days. We had our toddlers safety knife (read deliberalely short and blunt) confiscated by the half wits at Gatwik last year. Yet on the way home we were allowed through with the first aid kit contianign syringes and scissors.
You absolutely should be able to take boots in your hand luggage if you can fit them in the required weight/dimensions for your airline. My wife and I do it virtually every trip. We don't use boot bags though, we pack them in a ruck sack in a "69" position, with the socks and other bits stuffed inside them.
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