Packing your Ski bag

LOTA wrote:This thread spurred me into action:

Skis, sticks, bag etc - just under 8kg;
Boots - just under 4kg;
Snow + Rock holdall - just under 5kg.

So a total of 17kg, leaving me with 15kg of my Easyjet allowance.
Should be enough, with judicious use of hand luggage!

Admin wrote:

freezywater wrote:Easyjet check in at Geneva fleeced us on the way back this easter

To be fair, their policy is stated pretty clearly and they are flexible on the distribution of the weight you've paid for :-

Sports equipment – how does it work?
Buying weight allowance for sporting goods gives you a 12kg extra weight allowance. You must be travelling with sports equipment (as listed in the booking process), although the exact weight distribution between items doesn't matter.
For example:
One passenger travelling buys a bag and an additional sporting allowance. This gives an allowance of 2 items (which must include 1 sporting item), at a total weight of 32kg. However, if the sporting item is 18kg and the bag is 14kg then that's fine with us!
Two passengers are travelling with one hold bag and two pieces of sports equipment. This gives an allowance of 3 items (which must include 2 sporting items), at a total weight of 44kg. The exact distribution of weight between baggage items doesn't matter, subject to the maximum weights detailed above for health and safety reasons.

That's from http://www.easyjet.com/EN/Planning/baggage.html

From the above, Tony's policy of stuffing his ski bag is explicitly stated as just fine with Easyjet as long as the total weight comes in right. (I'd thought that might be pushing things, so glad I looked it up!)

The excess baggage charges are intended to be punitive, and they have to be - if the plane's overweight it won't (be allowed to) fly.

As bandit says, some of the TO limits and charges do seem excessive and only designed to generate revenue - always read the small print.