Spare Wheel As Hold Luggage On An Aeroplane

[T5R+]

Cannot find an answer on the carriers website (Flybe).

Would like to take a spare wheel on my flight as my car is currently on a spacesaver parked in the airport carpark.

For various reasons cannot get to a tyre specialist and it makes sense to take one of the spare alloys and swap the spacesaver over. Fly in at 10pm swap wheel over and drive 60miles to my hotel!

[Thankyou4calling]

T5R+ said:

Cannot find an answer on the carriers website (Flybe).

Would like to take a spare wheel on my flight as my car is currently on a spacesaver parked in the airport carpark.

For various reasons cannot get to a tyre specialist and it makes sense to take one of the spare alloys and swap the spacesaver over. Fly in at 10pm swap wheel over and drive 60miles to my hotel!

Sounds a bit of a rigmarole. Why can't you drive to a tyre fitter the following day rather than lug a wheel and tyre around?

[Snails]

I guess as long as it is smaller than:

10kg hand baggage (max 55 x 40 x 23cm)

http://www.flybe.com/baggage/hand-baggage.htm

Any bigger and it won't fit in the overhead lockers.

[AdeTuono]

Snails said:

I guess as long as it is smaller than:

10kg hand baggage (max 55 x 40 x 23cm)

http://www.flybe.com/baggage/hand-baggage.htm

Any bigger and it won't fit in the overhead lockers.

No doubt the reason the OP specified hold-luggage in the post title?

[Tickle]

would it need to be let down too, is there a rule about compressed gases?

[Snails]

AdeTuono said:

No doubt the reason the OP specified hold-luggage in the post title?

Oh, I hadn't seen that, apologies. In that case, I cannot see anything in the prohibited/restricted items section that would prevent it from being taken on board.

[Rubin215]

My friend's husband brought winter tyres on wheels for her people carrier back from Germany with him as they were much cheaper there and his company pay all his flights and luggage costs.
I think he did them two at a time.

[fathomfive]

Seems like a wheely good idea to me.

[simonej]

I've carried two main landing gear wheels for a small jet on a BA flight before, fully inflated. They were bigger and heavier than your average car wheel and no one asked any questions. If in doubt, deflate the tyre and take a compressor with you.

[jkh112]

Many years ago I carried a set of roll hoops for an mg onto a flight. The cabin crew were not too impressed but they found somewhere to store them at the back of the plane.

[southpaw]

I'd make sure it was packaged well, judging by how luggage handlers throw bags around a wheel may not be very round when you get it at the other end, or have plenty of damage to the face!

[The Moose]

I tried to bring remote reservoir shocks back from the US. There were 4 of us so we put one in each persons suitcase and slung them in our suitcases to go in the hold (empty). 1 chap was flying with BA, the rest of us virgin. Virgin pulled them out but BA didn't give a st. As it turned out, the main man in Miami for Virgin had them sitting in his office and gave us a call a few days later. Turned out he was a bit of a petrol head so personally delivered them to us (20 mins from Heathrow) and had a chat about cars.