Ski Carriage charges

smirnoff_skier wrote:Well having come back from Turin on Sunday, I can confirm that Thomas Cook airlines(Nielson as the TO) pretty much don't car what your ski stuff weighs.

The 3 of us who took ski bags all had bags weighing between 8 and 12kg and the ladies on the check-in desks (both in Manchester and Turin) didn't bat an eyelid. It seems strange that their policy wording says 6kg but in reality they don't bother to check. Maybe its just so not too many people take very heavy bags.

smirnoff_skier wrote:

On a slightly different note, Turin airport is rubbish!
3 flights from different english airports all landed at the same time with at least 100 people waiting for ski/board bags. The outsize luggage area is a single conveyer belt that just comes out of the wall (not in a loop). This means that if the 8 ski bags on the belt don't belong to someone stood there, the rest of the bags don't come out until they have all been claimed. People were also not willing to pick up the bags and prop them against the wall so that more bags could be sent out. This mess cost us our sunday afternoon skiing which was rubbish.