Golf clubs baggage

[thecraw]

Can anyone tell me the cheapest way to book golf clubs onto a flight.

Looking at flights to Gatwick and the chancing sods are wanting an additional £50 to carry a set of golf clubs! It almost doubles my flight costs!

That was with Easyjet. Any other airlines I should try? Tips and advice much appreciated.

 

[Val]

BA will take them as part of your free allowance if you can take everything else hand luggage but BA will be £100 a flight

 

[jpenno]

Easyjet used to have a set fee of £15 each way for Sporting Goods, bike, surfboard, golf clubs etc. Not flown with them for 12 months so they may have decided it was an easy way to increase revenue

 

[thecraw]

Easyjet used to have a set fee of £15 each way for Sporting Goods, bike, surfboard, golf clubs etc. Not flown with them for 12 months so they may have decided it was an easy way to increase revenue

£25 e/w now.

 

[bigslice]

what about sending them ahead of you by courier, no idea of costs. or internal mail at work lol

 

[chris661]

With easyjet the weight allowance is pretty good and it is a combined thing all in all I think they are pretty good. Would rather use them than Ryanair but that's a different story

 

[TED]

Don't even think about Ryanair. They charge £80 for clubs.

 

[CliveW]

Post them. :lol:

 

[Grumps]

Have you looked at hiring a set out there

 

[Smiffy]

Annoying isn't it. I flew to Scotland the year before last for the Castle Stuart meet. Initially the flight were going to cost something like £50.00 return. By the time you added golf clubs and luggage on top the flights came out at over £100.00 each. It still worked out cheaper than driving though. And was a lot quicker!

 

[DappaDonDave]

Train?

 

[bobmac]

Crawford, £100 ish return from Glasgow to Gatwick has still got to be better than driving.
Get your wee purse oot ya tight fecker

:rofl:

 

[Smiffy]

what about sending them ahead of you by courier, no idea of costs. or internal mail at work lol

I looked at doing this on my first visit up to Scotland and it certainly worked out cheaper Crawford. Sending them down by courier might sound a silly idea, but if you could get them done for £15.00 each way it would work out a bit cheaper and save you having to carry them. Not such a silly idea as it sounds mate.

 

[full_throttle]

just a suggestion, would it not be more convienient to have the clubs collected from your house and delivered to the golf course . parcel monkey will do that for about £15, you need to correctly enter the dimensions and weight to get a more accurate figure.

 

[Adi2Dassler]

Can anyone tell me the cheapest way to book golf clubs onto a flight.

Looking at flights to Gatwick and the chancing sods are wanting an additional £50 to carry a set of golf clubs! It almost doubles my flight costs!

That was with Easyjet. Any other airlines I should try? Tips and advice much appreciated.

Only two airlines fly between Scotland and Gatwick...Easyjet and BA.BA will carry them free of charge if they are aprt of your free luggage allowance...20kgs.chuck your gear in a carry-on bag if you think you'll exceed that allowance-they will charge you excess baggage.

Depending on where you are heading, have a look at cityjet to city airport
http://www.cityjet.com/

 

[gripitripit]

Book a seat for your clubs....Prob works out cheaper then checking them in as luggage..!

 

[Twire]

I'm flying with Flybe next month and have just booked an extra 20kilos baggage @ £12 for my clubs, but beware they won't be insured as golf clubs. If you have golf insurance that should cover them.

 

[Val]

Crawford, genuinely give BA some thought they are good to fly with and no hidden charges and when you weigh everything up with easyjet including baggage etc BA maybe around the same sort of price.

You also get free drink on board with BA

 

[Billysboots]

Be VERY careful with Easyjet and how they interpret baggage allowances.

We fly regularly with them as a group of 8, and last year they checked us in at Luton as a group rather than individuals, and spread the total allowance over the group, which is what it says they should do in terms and conditions.

On the return from Faro they insisted on checking us in separately, and consequently although we came back with less luggage overall (I for one had dunked a dozen ProV's in the water during 36 holes at Monte Rei), as two of the eight were over the individual allowance they got stung with excess baggage fees. As a group we were well under the overall allowance.

The customer "service" back in the UK was average at best, and it took any number of emails before they accepted they were in the wrong and coughed up a refund.

 

[Monty_Brown]

For £50, leave your clubs at home, then buy a starter set at Sports Direct down south.

Those Dunlop drivers average 300 yards in regular flex, I hear

"60% of the time, it hits the fairway every time."