Air Asia - using Sports luggage for excess
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Jan 2009
Posts: 63
Air Asia - using Sports luggage for excess
Hi all,
I'm currently in Kota Kinabalu, and trying to find a way of getting a bunch of luggage from here to Cairns, Australia (3 people traveling with lots of personal and scientific gear). One option is taking Air Asia to Sydney, and finding a way to Cairns from there. I can buy 40kg of checked baggage per person. In addition, I can buy 40kg of sports baggage per person. The question is, how likely are they to let me check a bunch of non-sports-gear under the sports baggage allowance? I understand they're not supposed to (de jure), but i'm wondering how this works in actual fact (de facto).
I've been in jams on Air Asia before with luggage, on a domestic flight, and they've been quite accommodating in trying to use sports luggage allowances and otherwise to help from from paying an absolute fortune. It might help that I have my wife with me and 3 year old daughter climbing all over me while checking in.
It's a risk, but if I could get a sense of just how risky it may be and therefore make it a calculated risk, then I could perhaps make a decision on what to do... any thoughts greatly appreciated...
thanks,
allie
I'm currently in Kota Kinabalu, and trying to find a way of getting a bunch of luggage from here to Cairns, Australia (3 people traveling with lots of personal and scientific gear). One option is taking Air Asia to Sydney, and finding a way to Cairns from there. I can buy 40kg of checked baggage per person. In addition, I can buy 40kg of sports baggage per person. The question is, how likely are they to let me check a bunch of non-sports-gear under the sports baggage allowance? I understand they're not supposed to (de jure), but i'm wondering how this works in actual fact (de facto).
I've been in jams on Air Asia before with luggage, on a domestic flight, and they've been quite accommodating in trying to use sports luggage allowances and otherwise to help from from paying an absolute fortune. It might help that I have my wife with me and 3 year old daughter climbing all over me while checking in.
It's a risk, but if I could get a sense of just how risky it may be and therefore make it a calculated risk, then I could perhaps make a decision on what to do... any thoughts greatly appreciated...
thanks,
allie
#2
Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: LON
Programs: BAEC
Posts: 3,912
I guess you have read this...
https://www.airasia.com/my/en/baggag...equipment.page
They seem to have quite a well defined list of what is or is not sports luggage.
Any sports equipment that are not mentioned above will be accepted as part of your checked baggage.
However, we do not accept carriage of the following sports equipment:
https://www.airasia.com/my/en/baggag...equipment.page
They seem to have quite a well defined list of what is or is not sports luggage.
Sports equipment
The following sporting equipment can be checked in, subject to a sports equipment fee, which can be either pre-booked at a discounted rate online or at a standard rate at the airport check-in counters. Remember, each checked in item must not weigh more than 32kg.+ Golf
+ Surfboards
+ Diving
+ Bicycle
+ Ski/Snowboard
+ Cricket
Any sports equipment that are not mentioned above will be accepted as part of your checked baggage.
However, we do not accept carriage of the following sports equipment:
- Hang gliders
- Sails
- Kayaks, canoes and oars
- Pole vaults
- Javelins