Poster: A snowHead
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I've just booked up some flights with Air France for the first time, and was trying to find out exactly what the procedure is when taking ski luggage with them.
Their website is a little confusing. It seems to be saying you can take skis/snowboard as your luggage allowance (up to 23kg) for no additional cost, but you need to phone their sales team to confirm this.
The website points to a page that doesn't have an obvious "sales team" phone number.
Has anyone been through this process and know what to do?
I assume just rocking up at the airport and expecting everything to be OK is madness.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Don't fly air France.
My boyfriend has had 100% of his flights with them cancelled or severely delayed (out of 4) and all he managed to get out of them was a voucher for use with them (great!) with a 12 month expiry date....
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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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a bit late for that, tickets booked
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kat.ryb wrote: |
Don't fly air France.
My boyfriend has had 100% of his flights with them cancelled or severely delayed (out of 4) and all he managed to get out of them was a voucher for use with them (great!) with a 12 month expiry date.... |
Cancelled or delayed more than 3 hours and he should have been pursuing them for statutory compensation under EU261/2004, it's very straightforward.
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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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I am going through this exact process myself, flying from Toulouse to Lyon for a trip to La Grave (not much choice other than AF), purchased an extra bag during the booking procedure, but my S3's fall outside of the acceptable size limit- (150 cm in length I think), my S3's are 186's (with Marker F12's if you are interested) I contacted their team via the website and received a reply saying:
Thank you for contacting Air France .
The transportation of sporting equipment in the hold needs to be requested by telephone prior to departure (ideally at least two working days before your flight).
Depending on the flight operator, hold space being available and the information you provide, the golf bags may be confirmed. All requests are subject to confirmation
You will need to provide the following information to make your request:
* Your reservation details
* Type of equipment
* 3 dimensions ( length, width, height, in centimeters) and the weight in kilos of the equipment.
Please contact our support team on: UK - 0871 663 37 77 (opening hours from Monday to Friday 8.00am - 8.00pm, Saturday and Sunday 9.00am - 5.30pm)
Hope this helps.
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Adam123, Sorry, can't answer your question, but if it makes you feel better, I have flown over 200 times with them in the last 5 years, and never had a flight cancelled
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airbornebadger, thanks for that, will give it a try
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Adam123, just a heads up as I just phoned them up.
You are allowed one item of baggage up to 23kg free, two if you have enough miles or are premium economy and above. Ski bag and ski boot bag counts as one item. It was pretty straight forward on the phone, they seem to just want to have a heads up that you'll be coming with skis.
The dimension bit seems a bit odd to be honest, so I just gave them estimates.
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yes, just spoke with them too.
Strangely they wanted me to phone them back next week to confirm that the luggage request had gone through. Don't really understand why that should be necessary.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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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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Adam123, I got the same response regarding calling them back!
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airbornebadger wrote: |
I am going through this exact process myself, flying from Toulouse to Lyon for a trip to La Grave (not much choice other than AF), |
Do you not have access to a car - can't imagine it's that hard a drive
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You know it makes sense.
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bertie bassett, I have several cars, but I would rather fly and then meet my mate at the airport, as this means I can get on the lash on the plane rather than spend 8 hours or so driving.
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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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Adam123, I finally managed to get through on the phone, I got told it would not be a problem, I asked them to email this to me, which I have subsequently printed out and will take to the airport to hopefully ensure a smooth embarkation, below is the email:
Thank you for contacting Air France / Delta Air Lines.
We would like to advise you that as per our luggage policy, ski equipments are considered as 1
piece of luggage, regardless of it's dimensions as long as the weight does not exceed 23kg.
Best regards.
Air France.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Wonder why they ask for the dimension size then!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Timmaah wrote: |
Wonder why they ask for the dimension size then! |
Probably for planning purposes.
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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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Jesus Air France/KLM are incompetent. Been 9 days since request, numerous phone calls and they just tell me to keep calling back.
airbornebadger, has your request been confirmed or is it still pending?
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Timmaah, probably find that some planes have limited capacity for outsize bags, I know this is the case with other airlines.
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