Ski Boot Bags

I have been looking for a ski boot bag for ages now that complies with airline regulations for hand luggage, ie 56x45x25cm. A pair of boots sat next to each other in a bag is too large, which is 99.9% of boot bags. Does anyone know of a bag that complies. Boots on top of each other in the bag will do it. Straps that can be used as a rucksack would be great. Frustratingly most online shops don't offer the bags dimensions. I have found one bag that possibly complies. There is a gap in the market. :?:

Adam67 wrote:I have been looking for a ski boot bag for ages now that complies with airline regulations for hand luggage, ie 56x45x25cm. A pair of boots sat next to each other in a bag is too large, which is 99.9% of boot bags. Does anyone know of a bag that complies. Boots on top of each other in the bag will do it. Straps that can be used as a rucksack would be great. Frustratingly most online shops don't offer the bags dimensions. I have found one bag that possibly complies. There is a gap in the market. :?:

Pack them in your suitcase that you check in and use your hand luggage allowance for other things like gloves, goggles, etc. you can't pack ski boots any better or safer than that.

This is something troubling me a little. We have conventional boot bags (salomon). We flew for the 1st time when skiing last April. I did measure the boot bags and they do slightly exceed the hand luggage measurements. However, we flew with KLM (Humberside - Amsterdam - Oslo) and they were completely relaxed both ways.

We are flying with Easyjet at New Year (Liverpool - Geneva) and imagine that they will be much more strict. We could pack our boots into our hold luggage but I'd be seriously cheesed off if they were lost, hence desire to carry on as hand luggage. I'm actually tempted to split the boots between boot bags and rucksacks (our children will be carrying a rucksack each but will be hiring boots). Therefore one boot per bag! Sounds a bit mad but I'm sure it would work.

I thought some airlines had stopped allowing boots in hand luggage.

Tony_H, thanks but my boots outweigh my socks etc and are slightly larger. I have got by in the past from a £7.99 rucksack from JJB sports, but its about to collapse. There must be a back pack out there that will comply?

Brooksy, they might not be keen on the idea for whatever reason, but they don't weigh more than the allowance and if packed correctly are not larger than the allowance. There is nothing stipulated in their terms and conditions that you cant carry boots in your hand luggage either. If they're in a back pack they don't even know and the guy at x ray is looking for something a little more threatening. I have found a Lange bag, but its not in backpack format.

I have a wheeled trolley mini-suitcase for my boots, which I bought from Profeet. I very carefully measured it to make sure it complied with the regulations, and discovered that the wheels stick out about 2cm more than is allowed.

The boots fit in it top to tail, as it were.

However, I have flown with EasyJet using this as hand luggage about 4 times (i.e. 8 flights) and I haven't been told off yet, or asked to put it in that basket measuring thing.

I suppose if I did get into trouble with it I'd have to use something like a large supermarket bag and put some stuff from my suitcase in that to make room for my boots, and collapse the boot bag and put it into my suitcase.

I find the wheels very handy when wheeling my boots around on the London underground. It's amazing how much they weigh!

And, long term, if it started to become a problem I would have to buy a small wheeled suitcase the correct size, put some of my stuff in that, and fit my boots into my suitcase (like Tony H said).

With regard to boots in hand luggage I was saying what was stated by the the flight T&Cs & not what you can get away with, has anyone else heard of the restriction?