Easyjet bike but no hold baggage?
remedy_7
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Hello,
I hope to fly to Spain next week with easyjet.
Going to do a little tour so I will take my bike and just a carry-on, hand baggage.
Question - When I book the bike under 'sport equipment' do I also need to book a hold bag (which I won't need)?
The small print says that the 'sport equipment' takes your allowance up to 32kg. But I couldn't find anything about the allowance for just a bike. With a bike box it will be more than 12kg.
I will probably just pay the extra for the outbound, to be safe, but it would be nice to save £35 for the round trip.
Cheers.
I hope to fly to Spain next week with easyjet.
Going to do a little tour so I will take my bike and just a carry-on, hand baggage.
Question - When I book the bike under 'sport equipment' do I also need to book a hold bag (which I won't need)?
The small print says that the 'sport equipment' takes your allowance up to 32kg. But I couldn't find anything about the allowance for just a bike. With a bike box it will be more than 12kg.
I will probably just pay the extra for the outbound, to be safe, but it would be nice to save £35 for the round trip.
Cheers.
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As long as the bike box isn't more than 32Kg, then you're all fine.
I flew with them a couple of weeks ago and it was all fine.
As marcusjb says, just pay the sports equipment.
I flew to Geneva with them last week with just sports equipment supplement added.
I just had bike box with cabin case.i did have my cycling gear in with the bike box ( your not really supposed to, as long as the weight is under 32kg it will be fine), they didn't even weigh my bike case in Edinburgh just asked roughly what it weighed.
BTW, if anyone ever goes to Tenerife for a nice bit of climbing (and the drivers there are amazingly courteous and bike friendly) Thomson is really cheap for bike transfer at £15 per bike per way. Can make EasyJet look a v expensive option, although their flight times are often more palatable .
Paid for a hold bag on the outward leg, just so I can relax and not worry about it. Will ask at the airport regarding the return.
http://www.easyjet.com/en/sports-equipment
See the table at the bottom for 0 Bags, 1 Sports Equipment
Payment of the non-refundable Sports equipment fee entitles You to an additional weight allowance of 12kgs and increases Your checked in Hold luggage allowance to a maximum of 32kgs. A single item cannot weigh more than 32kgs in total.
We used to do this with snowboard wheelie bags, just pay the sports kit, but then cram as much stuff in as possible and then just take the rest as handluggage. Never got challenged on it, despite the fact that we obviously had more than just a snowboard in the bag.
i've flown with them many times and never once even considered that i'd have to pay for a suitcase i wasn't going to be using as well.
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In the past I have been asked to open the box to see if 'only' a bike was in there. This meant I couldn't close the box again as I didn't have anymore tape.
This time they didn't ask, but asked why I hadn't taped it up. You can't win.
I recommend leaving it open and having a roll of tape with you. Can't go wrong that way.
Also, getting on/off trains, elevators etc the holes for lifting the box got a bit torn/larger. So it was good to have the tape to make some repairs.
£35 and you can no-longer put other stuff in the box so you now have to take a hold bag. So the original 32kg for £28 is now nearer £50.
Costing me £140 for the bike (2 legs of 70) when I could have hired for the same amount.
BUT, I'm very attached to my bike and would like to have it with me, and also, I would have had to have booked a suitcase which was about £70 total I think.
My bike, 6kg + bag 9kg = 15kg, which leaves me 8kg for clothes and helmet, shoes, etc. right? (Plus whatever I can get in my carryon)
I think the effect saying you can only take the bike in the box is that you either have to make do with a carry-on bag or you have to pay for a suitcase. But I don't know how rigorously they will enforce that.
I have flown many times with my bike. I have been asked to open the box so they can check inside. I now leave it open and take tape with me.
Once in Gatwick, an Easyjet staff member came to the 'oversize' baggage check-in with me and checked the weight and asked the x-ray staff it was good. It wasn't but the x-ray staff said it was. Thankfully.
If you get away with it, great, if you don't it gets expensive plus a huge hassle repacking everything at the airport. I have been caught out, that is why I am careful.
BUT - if it wasn't for Easyjet and their prices I wouldn't have been able to go on so many great dive/climb/hike/cycling trips.
I'm amazed a member of their staff could be spared to accompany you to the oversize x-ray and should imagine it's beyond their responsibilities.
I would have thought the security people would have gotten the hump about their interference.
I've always just been asked what the weight was at Gatwick. They've never bothered actually weighing it.
Did this member of staff leave their check-in post to do this?