Originally Posted by
Abducted Alien
Booked Value fare for Finnair, 1 baggage included, from HEL to Europe. And I need to bring a coffee machine packed in a cardboard box with me. Can I check this in as a fragile item or is it just my resposibility to pack the whole thing for hard baggage handling and hope it will be not be broken?
Some years ago I had a bag containing fragile items and asked at check-in to put a fragile-sticker on it, but she told they don't do it anymore. Though don't know if that policy has changed since.
On the other hand, I wouldn't count on those stickers to protect the contents too much. Once I watched plane being loaded at OSL and there was a box with fragile stickers all over it. The guy loading the bags on the conveyor belt going to the hold of the plane looked at that box for a while, raised it up, and let it drop freely. Other pieces of baggage got much softer handling.
In any case I would pack it very well to endure almost everything.