Do you need to pay any extra money if you take a 175cm board with you flying?
How do you protect it?
Snowboard plane luggage
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Depends on the airline and the total weight of your luggage. Often there's extra charge of 10€/direction for skiing equipment, which can actually be quite nice since the odds are you'd have overload anyway (the standard maximum 20kg to cargo bay is easy to go over if you take 2 board sets for example) and they don't count the board bag to this weight.. Fill it up with gear.
If you're flying business the limits are different of course.
Padded board bag is a safe choice for protection.
If you're flying business the limits are different of course.
Padded board bag is a safe choice for protection.
Hi Zanci
Look for dakine boardbags, they are really protective and resistant. I got both low and high roller and they suit perfectly for flying as you can put not only the boards but all the gears (boots, clothes, tools...).
Some low-costs like Easyjet charges you eur 30 extra for a board bag and they allow up to 28kg of combined weight (luggages+boardbag) which means you can push your bag to 28 kg. Few decent airliners don't charge you but you are better off calling them few days before to make sure they are aware you are taking a boardbag. If you takes 2 boards, you can always save some weight by putting some equipment in a rucksack (helmet - although you are not supposed to take helmet onboard??- toolbox, pants, boots...) and off course wear your jacket (make also sure you help your bag when it comes to weighting by leaving a good part of it outside the carrier while talking to the lovely lady at the desk
...)
Ciao
D
Look for dakine boardbags, they are really protective and resistant. I got both low and high roller and they suit perfectly for flying as you can put not only the boards but all the gears (boots, clothes, tools...).
Some low-costs like Easyjet charges you eur 30 extra for a board bag and they allow up to 28kg of combined weight (luggages+boardbag) which means you can push your bag to 28 kg. Few decent airliners don't charge you but you are better off calling them few days before to make sure they are aware you are taking a boardbag. If you takes 2 boards, you can always save some weight by putting some equipment in a rucksack (helmet - although you are not supposed to take helmet onboard??- toolbox, pants, boots...) and off course wear your jacket (make also sure you help your bag when it comes to weighting by leaving a good part of it outside the carrier while talking to the lovely lady at the desk
...)Ciao
D
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Cervinia 10-13/11/2016
not only low-costs airlines are charging extra fees, our national french airline charges around 40 euros each way! basically if the size of your bag is more than 160, then they consider it's an over size luggage...and you cannot use your "miles" (cash only). I have been travelling with my snowboards a few times, from France to the US, from China to France, to Japan and to New Zealand...I had to pay extra fees only once, when flying with AF;denis wrote:Some low-costs like Easyjet charges you eur 30 extra for a board bag ...
Usually I put all my ski clothes in the bag along with the board (1 or 2) and one pair of bindings --- total weight of my bag has always been around 15kg.
I got different kind of bags, one of them is a Dakine as well. Quite thick, no damage on boards so far...but I always put clothes all around the board and I add some protection on the top and the tail; I bought some pilllows that I customised with my sewing machine
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