SKI CARRIAGE

this is a little late for dean as he has flown by now but we are off to chamrousse on 17th with thompson,and i am taking 2 pairs of skis ,and i nearly risked it ,but payed the £60 for the 2pairs just in case as they said 6 kg was the limit per pair and the skis and poles with the bag will weight more than that ,but when i flew to zell last year with ryan air i paid about £50 for the ski carriage and it was packed with every thing wine bottles in the boots ,clothes ,and skis, (tony h dont go thier) :lol: nothing was weighed or searched, so i think ryan air is great and i hope thompson are not going to be any different,or the power of j2ski members will bring them to thier knees, and please snow in the alps and big loads in chamrousse this week .

Just to add a little, if you fly with Swiss Inrternational, they take your skis or board for free! Certainly makes their flights more than competitive with the likes of Easy and Ryan!

If you have gone for the ski carriage option, does that mean you can take your boots as part of that carriage? ( will be in their own boot bag), or are they treated seperately.
Am flying with Monarch from Gatwick next Sat& havent been able to get a definate answer either way :?:
Didnt want to suddenly have to rearrange my hold suitcase to get some boots in becayse they may be refused.
Any advice welcome.

i always take 2 set of skis in a double bag and have never been charged more than 1 ski carrige touch wood

hi there, just quick question with regards ski boot bags,has anyone flown with thomsons this season and not paid for ski carriage but still checked in a suitcase and ski boot bag(2 items hold luggage but no hand luggage)OH is stressing about it i will be under my weight limit but can you take as seperat or do they have to go in case!!!!!!

frostbite wrote:If you have gone for the ski carriage option, does that mean you can take your boots as part of that carriage? ( will be in their own boot bag), or are they treated seperately.
Am flying with Monarch from Gatwick next Sat& havent been able to get a definate answer either way :?:
Didnt want to suddenly have to rearrange my hold suitcase to get some boots in becayse they may be refused.
Any advice welcome.

I flew with Monarch last year and was told that the boots had to be included in the weight of the normal luggage, we packed our skis with clothes too which was probably far too heavy but they didn't check, our luggage was also overweight but they didn't say anything. HOWEVER, the people at the next check in desk, also Monarch, had snowboard bags with clothes packed in and they made them take them all out and put them in their normal luggage and then charged them for being overweight!

I think it could be a case of, chose your check in chick carefully.

I know this will be too late for Dean, but I have just arrived back from Italy today, on checking 2prs of skis plus bag at Doncaster our bag weighed 14.9 kgs and they accepted that with no problem, although at the oversize desk they did make us open the bag. IMO though, I think that whether or not they accept overweight bags or charge extra will be entirely dependent on the person/airport doing the check in.

Kath

frostbite wrote:If you have gone for the ski carriage option, does that mean you can take your boots as part of that carriage? ( will be in their own boot bag), or are they treated seperately.
Am flying with Monarch from Gatwick next Sat& havent been able to get a definate answer either way :?:
Didnt want to suddenly have to rearrange my hold suitcase to get some boots in becayse they may be refused.
Any advice welcome.

If Monarch are charging per bag, then I would expect that they will charge you separately for the boot bag if checked in separately :x

May be worth seeing if you can squeeze them into the suitcase but watch out for excess weight. The airlines baggage rules are becoming a real pain in the a** :evil: :evil: :evil: