Any success checking 40" LCD TV on Delta domestic in box without charge? GM
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Any success checking 40" LCD TV on Delta domestic in box without charge? GM
I have a 40" LCD TV in box that I would like to bring home with me. Officially, the dimension total is 72" which is above the maximum of 61". Obviously it's shaped like a TV box. It is under 50#.
I'm a delta GM.
The TV is only worth $50-100, so it's not worth paying $200 to check it. If I can't check it, it's going to charity or the garbage.
What are the odds I will successfully check this at thegate check in counter without any additional charge?
I am ready to let it go if I don't successfully check it. Will Delta dispose of it for me or let me leave it by a trash can if they try to charge at ORD?
I'm a delta GM.
The TV is only worth $50-100, so it's not worth paying $200 to check it. If I can't check it, it's going to charity or the garbage.
What are the odds I will successfully check this at the
I am ready to let it go if I don't successfully check it. Will Delta dispose of it for me or let me leave it by a trash can if they try to charge at ORD?
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Also, if they tell you that you can't check it without paying the $200 oversize fee, what's your plan? You can't just drop it in a garbage can. If you leave a large box just sitting in the ticket lobby you can expect a visit from the airport police.
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Don't try this at the GATE as it will not fit into an overhead bin or closet and is extremely large for gate checking, but TSA is unlikely to let you through airport security with a TV that won't fit through their X-ray machines for carry on bags and other carry on sized items.
IMO your best chance is to try to check the TV curbside with a nice tip, but not every airport does curbside checkin. Can we assume that this is a domestic itinerary?
Do you have appropriate protective packaging materials for the TV?
IMO your best chance is to try to check the TV curbside with a nice tip, but not every airport does curbside checkin. Can we assume that this is a domestic itinerary?
Do you have appropriate protective packaging materials for the TV?
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Don't try this at the GATE as it will not fit into an overhead bin or closet and is extremely large for gate checking, but TSA is unlikely to let you through airport security with a TV that won't fit through their X-ray machines for carry on bags and other carry on sized items.
IMO your best chance is to try to check the TV curbside with a nice tip, but not every airport does curbside checkin. Can we assume that this is a domestic itinerary?
Do you have appropriate protective packaging materials for the TV?
IMO your best chance is to try to check the TV curbside with a nice tip, but not every airport does curbside checkin. Can we assume that this is a domestic itinerary?
Do you have appropriate protective packaging materials for the TV?
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Ideally someone wants it, but the logistics may kill this idea. It's worth $50-100, its essentially a new TV. It's not worth $200.
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As I stated above, IMO your best bet is to avoid going inside to the counter and dealing with DL agents if you can give a tip/bribe to a skycap doing curbside checkin.
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yeah I agree, skycaps are the least likely to be rules sticklers, especially if they get a good tip. If you're able to get it by them successfully you should be golden.
Also, if they do stop you from checking with it, they'll probably be happy to take it off your hands.
Is someone bringing you to the airport? That would be the best plan B, let them deal with it if you can't get it onto the plane one way or another.
Also, if they do stop you from checking with it, they'll probably be happy to take it off your hands.
Is someone bringing you to the airport? That would be the best plan B, let them deal with it if you can't get it onto the plane one way or another.
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I forgot . . . . You said ORD.
I forgot . . . . You said ORD.
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This question comes up more frequently than i would have guessed:
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Seems like it's not impossible. Either way it'll make a good story
https://www.google.com/search?q=chec...Aflyertalk.com
Seems like it's not impossible. Either way it'll make a good story
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If you abandon a box this size the police with be called. A wide area around the box is likely to be cordoned off while they ascertain the contents, inconveniencing and possibly delaying other passengers.
I was at MSP once when someone forgot a backpack airside and left it sitting in the mall area not far from the F/G SkyClub. A wide area was cleared both airside, where the backpack had been left, and outside in the section of ticketing on the other side of the wall, which was most of the Delta checkin area.