 Poster: A snowHead
|
Just bought a new helmet and short of wearing it on the plane, where would be the best place for it to travel either hanging from your hand luggage is this permissable or in your hold luggage with the chance of it getting damaged.
Many thanks
Willie
|
|
|
|
|
|
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
|
willie5094, welcome to snowheads.  Stuff it full of gloves, pants and socks etc, wrap it in a fleece and stick it in your hold baggage. Or if you have a big enough backpack/carry on, inside that, equally stuffed. It takes up scarcely any room in itself.
|
|
|
|
|
|
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?
|
I saw a guy travelling last week with his two ski boots hanging off either the side of his rucksack - this was hand luggage on an easyjet flight...
maybe he paid extra, maybe he was Steilos' nephew
|
|
|
|
|
|
You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
|
|
Cheers guys for your reply's.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
|
|
I take mine in hand luggage and have never had a problem. I don't mind entrusting my boots to the hold, but they don't protect my head! Having said that I suspect that the hold would be fine.
|
|
|
|
|
|
You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
|
Hard to think what damage can be done to a helmet which is put into your hold luggage. Sure a baggage wagon can roll over it but that is unlikely. Worst that can happen is that your bag doesn't make it onto the flight, in which case the helmet is the least of your worries.
.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
willie5094, I would have thought that providing it was in a thin bag to stop it getting un-necessarily scratched, which seems a shame when it happens that it wouldn't matter where you carried it so long as the airline approved and let it on the aircraft. After all, if it's capable of protecting your bonce in fast-closing on-piste shunt with another piste skier, I wouldn't have thought it was get easily damaged in any luggage.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
palumbex, Megamum, I used a snowboard bag for my luggage recently and, because it doesn't have much depth, I found it difficult to pad the helmet sufficiently. Unfortunately it did get dented in transit, I don't know how. My understanding is that a dent (which can be the result of a skiing prang in which the helmet saves your head from being dented) compromises the future efficacy of the helmet, so I felt obiged to replace it.
|
|
|
|
|
|
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
|
Pedantica, that's a shame. Cool look, though - the snowboard bag. 
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
FAQ
The snowboard bag is, however, cool indeed - it's a frightfully smart tartan job, with wheels, that I got at a knock-down price and I could easily get my skis and all my clothes in it. Boots - tell it not abroad - went into hand luggage. 
