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 #1 Board bag on plane Posted 05/02/2010 @ 09:32 |
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I'm having difficulty getting a straight answer off Thomas Cook.
Tomorrow I'm off to Mayrhofen and have a 20kg allowance + 5 kg hand luggage on the flight.
I have also booked Ski/ Snowboard carriage at £15 extra for the return trip but it say the max weight is 10kg.
I've basically bunged everything in my snowboard bag and will only be carrying on a small rucksack as hand luggage.
My board bag probably weighs around 20kg but Thomas Cook said I still needed board carriage at £15 but the bag must not exceed 10kg.
Confused ! Will I have to split my hold luggage? |
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| #2 Re: Board bag on plane Posted 05/02/2010 @ 10:07 |
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Unfortunately the board bag attracts the £15 premium I think due to its length, but I travel with a normal bag and a board bag and have a total of 30kg split 20kg kit bag and 10kg board bag, they weigh all of your kit together including hand luggage when you check in anyway so they can't possibly differentiate between bags. 
We go as a group 10+ & some take outstanding allowance, our strategy is to present all passports together by our nominated Captain and it then seems to become a total travel weight for all of the party. |
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2nd Place is the First Loser |
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| #3 Re: Board bag on plane Posted 05/02/2010 @ 11:16 |
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They never weigh my board bag - ever.
If you have paid already they generally don't care.
Just hold it upright to help the check-in staff put the baggage tags on then they won't even touch it.
Remember that oversize luggage goes through different parts of the chack-in area.
No sweat!  |
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| #4 Re: Board bag on plane Posted 05/02/2010 @ 11:37 |
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Having a slimilar issue with sl-easyjet. My interpretation is board bag is a max 32kg. I'll get everything I own in there!
Roll on massive excess charge  |
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| #5 Re: Board bag on plane Posted 05/02/2010 @ 12:37 |
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you'll be fine, don't go over the 32kg limit. In my experience, the only airline who never weighed my boardbag was BA, everyone else, easyjet/whoever the package companies use/skyeurope have always weighed my board bag when putting the luggage tag on |
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Dick Dastardly was right, don't just stand there, do something |
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| #6 Re: Board bag on plane Posted 05/02/2010 @ 14:54 |
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We had a real fright from air canada last jan on the way to whistler. The check in girl was strict about the "no one bag over 20Kg". There were six of us flying. My bag was way under weight and as a group we were under but one board bag and one case were over by a couple of Kg each. We got charged £80!
On the flight back we made sure of the individual weights (I bought a board & bag and stuffed it) and they didn't even check!  |
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| #7 Re: Board bag on plane Posted 08/02/2010 @ 18:23 |
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TC and Monarch seem fickle when it comes to this. seems to depend where youre flying out of. Also weve had our board bag weighed probably 75% of the time its been checked in,, always at manchester.
Two boards packed in one bag along with most of our tech gear plus one other bag between two of us and two lots of ski/board carriage paid for. All in came to about 45 kg, bit over our baggage allowance but the extra well covered by the board carriage.
at Manchester outbound we explained this and as we were well under our overall allowance this was ok
Calgary they are less flexible. they stick to the no one bag containing board or skis cann be over 10 kg. and only one set per bag.
Last time through Calgary two years ago we managed to blag this but they're sticking to it now apparently though due to already being 11 hours delayed they didnt press it.
if thats the rules then i suppose its fair enough but the problem is you cant find out what what the score is before you fly. Its well known by the inghams reps etc so why cant it be passed on to customers when booking not hidden in the small print? |
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| #8 Re: Board bag on plane Posted 08/02/2010 @ 19:30 |
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Hello
I have just been to Mayrhofen with Thomas Cook and we had the exact same thing. 20kg limit plus we paid extra to take board bag of 10kg.
In theory, yes, your board bag should weigh less than 10kg and then you can have another bag that weighs up to 20kg.
In reality, I only took in my board bag:-
- 2 boards
- bindings, boots, helmet, googles
- trousers, jacket
- and then several hoodies/other odd bits and bobs
..because I was worried about sticking everything in it and it was probably still over10kg. I took a big hiking rucksack with me with enough room, if there were issues at the airport, to transfer some stuff across.
What actually happened...neither on the way there or on the way back did they weigh anything. We got to desk, they asked how bags we were checking. We said 4. They asked for each one, which was stuck just far enough onto the scales for them to wrap a tag round and then we took it off to oversized luggage. Job done!
I think you will be fine - well I hope so! Have a great week. It was snowing buckets when we left on Saturday, on top of already great conditions so you should have a wicked time  |
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| #9 Re: Board bag on plane Posted 11/03/2010 @ 21:13 |
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yes i got stung on the way back from Canada as KLM decided to change there rules that the snowboard bag was classed as a seperate bag (think it was because of the Olympics and there were so many people they could rip off on my flight alone there were seven people who got ripped off this way. |
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| #10 Re: Board bag on plane Posted 14/03/2010 @ 23:34 |
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QUOTE (skell - 05/02/2010 @ 10:07) We go as a group 10+ & some take outstanding allowance, our strategy is to present all passports together by our nominated Captain and it then seems to become a total travel weight for all of the party.
Yep this is a great idea did it once |
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| #11 Re: Board bag on plane Posted 15/03/2010 @ 13:05 |
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Got recently rinsed by BA
apart from them splitting our group at checkin and sending us to the end of a bigger queue at the other end of the terminal meaning half the group missed the flight (cheers BA)
The main cause of iration for me was the fact that I had checked online and over the phone asking about boardbags - the verdict was not to pack everything into the boardbag, but to take a suitcase & a boardbag seperately. OK good one, so when we get to the terminal, we got charged an extra £35 each way for having two bags - sweet - the sooner they go under the better |
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