ski carriage at check-in

Never had a problem, always take a double board bag, with boths boards, 2 pr boots and a few sallo's and jackets. Only pay 1 carriage fee, its never been checked or weighed to my knowledge.
Now my hand luggage thats another matter. Have usually left from Bournemouth, I always have to empty my rucksack and they go through every-thing. This year flew from Gatwick and the only things in my rucksack were, small handbag,hat, gloves and scarf. I got stopped, bag emptied, rucksack and mobile phone swabbed and tested for drugs. So to come back we filled my rucksack with our smelliest socks, they never checked. :lol:

hairspray and deoderant banned on planes lol thinking of buying spare ski pole and chopping it in half poke it in the eye but might end up in a cell in austria for a week injhstead of on the piste oh well xx, thanks Rose R suppose it's all travel and learn