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Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / June 2008Luggage rules with skis
I have a ski trip in December using Delta. Delta has the one bag rule now. For Skis, there rules state: ------------------------------------------ "Ski or Snowboard Equipment: One item of ski or snowboard equipment is accepted as part of your free checked baggage allowance. One item of ski or snowboard equipment is defined as: One ski/pole bag or one snowboard bag, and One boot bag The combined weight of the ski/snowboard bag and the boot bag may not exceed 50lbs or excess baggage charges will apply. The maximum outside linear dimensions may exceed 80 inches, and no excess size charges apply." ------------------------------------------- Does anyone know when they say "is accepted as *part* of", does that mean that I am allowed to check 1 bag (non ski related), plus one ski bag plus the boot bag all for my free allowance? Art M > I have a ski trip in December using Delta. Delta has the one bag rule now. > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > Art M I think that means that you can check the ski gear and on other bags.  SignatureJanet Wilder Bad spelling. Bad punctuation Good Friends. Good Life > Does anyone know when they say "is accepted as *part* of", does that mean > that I am allowed to check 1 bag (non ski related), plus one ski bag plus > the boot bag all for my free allowance? Your ski equipment are counted as one piece of luggage (even if they are physically 2, the ski + boots) . In the good old days where people were allowed 2 pieces of luggage, you could have one suitacse, and your ski equipment. (total 3 bags). Since that web page currently states that your ski equipment is accepted as part of your free luggage allowance, it means that if Delta allows 1 free piece, you can then use that 1 bag allowange for carriage of your ski equipment, and pay whatever normal surcharge for your real suitacase. United's update policy has maintained the skin/boots as a "one regular piece of luggage" status. So you either pay $15 or $25 depending on whethert it is the first or second piece of luggage you check in. As a point of comparison, Bicycles have gone from free a number of years ago (for domestic) to $10, $25, $50, $80 $100 and now United charged $125. $80 was in effect at beginning of 2008 to give you an idea of how fast they are now rising. Because United's revised policies continue to consider the skis as a normal luggage, I suspect that when Delta updates its policy to charge for all checked bags, it will also continue to consider skis as regular luggage. >> Does anyone know when they say "is accepted as *part* of", does that mean >> that I am allowed to check 1 bag (non ski related), plus one ski bag plus >> the boot bag all for my free allowance? > > Your ski equipment are counted as one piece of luggage (even if they are > physically 2, the ski + boots) . Yep, that's how it used to work. > In the good old days where people were allowed 2 pieces of luggage, you > could have one suitacse, and your ski equipment. (total 3 bags). [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > free piece, you can then use that 1 bag allowange for carriage of your > ski equipment, and pay whatever normal surcharge for your real suitacase. Since they used the words "as part of" instead of simply the word "as" is what makes me question whether they are "part of" my regular 1 bag as free. I think they could have made it clearer in their wording and I have emailed Delta for clarification. > United's update policy has maintained the skin/boots as a "one regular > piece of luggage" status. So you either pay $15 or $25 depending on [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > for all checked bags, it will also continue to consider skis as regular > luggage. |
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