 Poster: A snowHead
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At New Year we're flying with BA Manchester - Heathrow - Nice. Reading their Ts & Cs it appears that ski equipment is included in the 23kg weight allowance. Obviously it is pretty unlikely that my baggage is going to come in under 23kg, unless I take only one change of clothes...
Does anyone have any previous experiences with BA, skis and weight allowance?
Cheers
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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beanie1, are you flying both with BA? I know that some airlines will allow an international weight on a domestic flight - if the domestic is a sector on the international trip. (I had that experience in Montana this year, at the check-in desk they weighed my bag and my skis together, and were about to charge me for them, then they looked again, and saw I was flying on from Minneapolis, so they took my skis off the scales, and booked both bags through.)
Now, on the downside, some airlines consider Europe as domestic. If that's the case, you need to be clever...
Take your boots as hand luggage, and stuff your boot bag as full as possible. If the bag doesn't look that big, and you carry it like it's not heavy when checking in, then you should be fine with that.
Put as much as you can into the ski bag. If you're lucky, they may not weigh it, and when they go to put the tag on it, hold it up off the scales!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Flown BA skiing a few times with no issues, carrying boots & skis. I only got close to 30kg for one bag when I was off to Oz for 3 weeks and it included 2 adults clothes. Wear heavy stuff like your jacket etc.
I don't think they will let you take boots on as hand luggage now, potential weapon etc etc!!
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gregh, I haven't flown BA on a ski trip for a few years, but had no problem with the boots on other airlines. Most of the airlines have reduced or changed their baggage rules in the last few months, I think the longhaul ones have dropped down to about 50kg total weight.
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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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beanie1, I used to use BA for long weekends to Switzerland, before Jet2 came along. They were never concerned about baggage weight then at all, although they may have tightened up over the last couple of years.
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I'm sure I read somewhere post 9/11 that airlines weren't going to allow boots on as hand luggage? Maybe I didn't !!
cheers,
greg
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Chaps, BA have no issue with you taking ski boots in hand luggage - done it a few times now, last time was last month.
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Returning from Munich last May, I was given a hard time at the check-in. They said they could waive up to 5kg extra. I had little hand luggage and offered to repack, so they let it pass. It was the first time BA had weighed my skis.
But Swiss codeshare on some routes. As far as I can see, their allowance is 30kg, plus skis go free.
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My personal theory is that airlines should charge for the number of kilograms carried, including passengers and baggage. Why should the charges levied depend on whether the payload consists of suitcases, skis, or large backsides? Everyone from a 2 year old to a grossly overweight adult pays the same to get on the plane, which is very rough justice. And even just looking at the baggage, now that so many airlines charge extra for skis, someone with skis could well end up paying MORE than someone with a much greater weight of baggage.
How entertaining could it be at check in, as passengers who had declared they were 8 stone were asked to get on the scales alongside their suitcases! I have been weighed at check-in for scheduled and charter flights where the passenger numbers were too small to be able to rely safely on average weights - but the result did not affect what we paid. Just as well for my Tongan fellow-passengers, on one flight, as not one of them was less than 20 stone.
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Wear the boots hehehe
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