BA and skis...thieving rip off merchants...
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OK. So just been skiing in Les Arcs, Monarch flight. 20kg hold allowance (split between a 15kg kitbag, plus a 5kg boot bag), rucksack as hand luggage, and £20 for return ski carriage (one pair in a soft bag). Simples.
Lads' trip to Val coming up in March...already booked with BA. They are offering me 23kg of hold luggage, 23kg of cabin luggage, but £34 for each extra item, each way. So that's £136 extra to get my boot bag and ski bag there and back. Oh, and I can't use that totally pointless allowance of 23 fecking kilos of cabin baggage to carry my boots, as I'm not allowed boots in hand luggage.
Robbing,
, thieving, Ryan Air-esque daylight robbery mofos. I thought the whole point of travelling with an alleged premium brand was good service and no hidden extras. Sorry BA but you've just lost a very loyal fan. FFS my Dad was BA ground crew and my mum was a stewardess and my childhood bedroom was a bloody shrine to your airline with those executive models of your fleet everywhere and bloody Dilbert the Jumbo pictures on my walls. I flew to Barbados this summer with the missus, Gatwick to Bridgetown, and chose your 777 over Virgin's 747, almost identical service and price, because of brand loyalty...nothing else. Sod that then!
On a more constructive note, can anyone recommend a reasonably priced wheelie ski bag that would carry a pair of 170cm piste skis, poles, fairly large boots with a 327mm sole length, a lid and have a bit of room left over for clothes?
Thanks!
Lads' trip to Val coming up in March...already booked with BA. They are offering me 23kg of hold luggage, 23kg of cabin luggage, but £34 for each extra item, each way. So that's £136 extra to get my boot bag and ski bag there and back. Oh, and I can't use that totally pointless allowance of 23 fecking kilos of cabin baggage to carry my boots, as I'm not allowed boots in hand luggage.
Robbing,
, thieving, Ryan Air-esque daylight robbery mofos. I thought the whole point of travelling with an alleged premium brand was good service and no hidden extras. Sorry BA but you've just lost a very loyal fan. FFS my Dad was BA ground crew and my mum was a stewardess and my childhood bedroom was a bloody shrine to your airline with those executive models of your fleet everywhere and bloody Dilbert the Jumbo pictures on my walls. I flew to Barbados this summer with the missus, Gatwick to Bridgetown, and chose your 777 over Virgin's 747, almost identical service and price, because of brand loyalty...nothing else. Sod that then!On a more constructive note, can anyone recommend a reasonably priced wheelie ski bag that would carry a pair of 170cm piste skis, poles, fairly large boots with a 327mm sole length, a lid and have a bit of room left over for clothes?
Thanks!
I feel your pain.
Four of us are off to Turks and Caicos for a diving holliday later this year. For the first time in 25 years we are flying BA. The only other carriers are US and go via the USA with all the nonsense of Homeland Security. However like you we have run into the total idiocy of 23k checked and 23k hand baggage allowances. Again like yourself we all have a considerable amount of sports (dive) gear together with professional underwater video equipment. We have managed to fit this into every other main carriers allowances of typically 30k checked and 7k hand but are having real problems with this. Allthough 23k hand sounds great they have very cleverly put restrictions on the bag size so unless you are transporting lead or gold you will be lucky to get more than 6/7k into the bag bearing in mind the restricions on hand baggage content.
Never again.....Singapore Airlines, Malaysia Airlines, Emerates you can do no wrong.
Four of us are off to Turks and Caicos for a diving holliday later this year. For the first time in 25 years we are flying BA. The only other carriers are US and go via the USA with all the nonsense of Homeland Security. However like you we have run into the total idiocy of 23k checked and 23k hand baggage allowances. Again like yourself we all have a considerable amount of sports (dive) gear together with professional underwater video equipment. We have managed to fit this into every other main carriers allowances of typically 30k checked and 7k hand but are having real problems with this. Allthough 23k hand sounds great they have very cleverly put restrictions on the bag size so unless you are transporting lead or gold you will be lucky to get more than 6/7k into the bag bearing in mind the restricions on hand baggage content.
Never again.....Singapore Airlines, Malaysia Airlines, Emerates you can do no wrong.
On the grounds my boots are about the most expensive thing I take skiing (don't own skis - yet) they are the first thing that goes in the case. Next come clothes with usually salopettes and jacket stuffed in to my carry-on rucksack (that is still small-enough to fit under the seat in front of me.
I've had a bag like this for years. Boots in one end, clothes in the middle.
And a ski bag separately.
I'm surprised these never really caught on, they're excellent.
Having looked for this pic, I've seen there's even better ones out there now. Bags like a snowboard / small ski bag, but with a large pocket at one end for boots. Realistically, you can fit ski gear around the skis, if the boots go in the end, you can fit a fair bit of other kit in the middle, leaving maybe a handful of clothes for hand luggage.
And a ski bag separately.
I'm surprised these never really caught on, they're excellent.
Having looked for this pic, I've seen there's even better ones out there now. Bags like a snowboard / small ski bag, but with a large pocket at one end for boots. Realistically, you can fit ski gear around the skis, if the boots go in the end, you can fit a fair bit of other kit in the middle, leaving maybe a handful of clothes for hand luggage.
maser_spyder said:
I've had a bag like this for years. Boots in one end, clothes in the middle.
And a ski bag separately.
I'm surprised these never really caught on, they're excellent.
Very similar to mine - I can't find a pic as it looks like it's not available any more, but the funny thing is there's always someone else with one when I get to the baggage belt And a ski bag separately.
I'm surprised these never really caught on, they're excellent.
Believe it or not, I went to St Anton last week, and ryanair made us open up our snowboard bags to make sure that there were no clothes in it. Obviously @ £100 return for ski bag, we were going to fill it and not check on anymore bags.
The actually made one of our party take her clothes out and book that bag on separate.
Its getting worse!
The actually made one of our party take her clothes out and book that bag on separate.
Its getting worse!
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