Flights and walking poles a no-no

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Caminando

Veteran Member

• Feb 26, 2011

• #1

I was unable to take my walking pole on as cabin luggage with Ryanair from SDC to Madrid. It has been said on the forum that there was no problem here, but I had to dump mine.

The only way they do it is as hold luggage. 40 euros.

I wasnt a happy bunny. I´ll go back to cutting a stick next time.

 

JohnnieWalker

Nunca se camina solo

Donating Member

• Feb 26, 2011

• #2

I think the general consensus on the forum with Ryanair is that if the walking sticks are collapsed and contained in the rucksack there isn't a problem. That is my most recent experience with them.

 

renegadepilgrim

Veteran Pilgrim and Traveler

Time of past OR future Camino

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• Feb 26, 2011

• #3

Yeah, how did they know you had them? Was it the airline or security that made you check them? Just curious for future travels. I'm looking at a pair of Diamondback collapsible poles that are carbon fiber, super light and fold very compactly to fit in my pack.

 

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Caminando

Veteran Member

• Feb 28, 2011

• #4

My walking pole was collapsed, in three sections, and invisible in the rucsac.The Xray machine showed it and they told me I couldnt take it.

I have the feeling that they are not always like this and it depends on who's on duty at the time.

Nevertheless thats what happened with me.

Its a risk.

 

sun is shining

Active Member

• Apr 24, 2011

• #5

With Ryanair it is always a bit hit and miss; depending which airport/country/staff they are more or less strict. In Milan they let me take 18kg of hand luaggage (3 more than allowed) without problem whereas in Frankfurt I had to pay extra because I was 0.3kg over the limit.

For this summer I got a doctors note telling them that I need hiking poles - not sure if its going to make a difference but it might work.

 

dougfitz

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• Apr 25, 2011

• #6

I can understand the drive not to have checked baggage on Ryanair and airlines with a similar fare structure, but most aviation safety/security agencies around the world require walking poles and ski poles to be carried in the hold. Where a justification is given, it relates to the potential for certain sporting equipment to be used as a weapon.

Given the wealth of material on the safety/security agency sites and individual airlines own conditions of carriage web pages that clearly state this position, I am a little surprised that anyone would try to carry poles on as cabin baggage. Perhaps a good reminder that the advice on the forum needs to be checked with other, more authoritative, sources if the issue is important.

sun is shining - I am sure we would all be interested in how successful you are with your medical certificate approach. My mind has already turned to the comic sketch of the airport scene where the protagonist is trying to explain that they cannot proceed to the aircraft without the aid of their walking sticks when they clearly intend to walk for days on end along the Camino.

 

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Sojourner47

Guest

• Apr 25, 2011

• #7

As stated on another post, I took my super deluxe homemade screw together bamboo walking pole aboard Ryanair in my pack without trouble, probably because, being wooden, it didn't register on the Xray. As it happened, I forgot the pole at Betanzos, but in the event found I got on a lot better without it, so that problem won't arise again...

 

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AGW1

Member

• Nov 16, 2011

• #8

---comic sketch of the airport scene where the protagonist is trying to explain that they cannot proceed to the aircraft without the aid of their walking sticks when they clearly intend to walk for days on end along the Camino.
LOL

 

Abbeydore

Veteran Member

• Nov 16, 2011

• #9

AGW1 said:

---comic sketch of the airport scene where the protagonist is trying to explain that they cannot proceed to the aircraft without the aid of their walking sticks when they clearly intend to walk for days on end along the Camino.
LOL

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yes the stupidity of it all
& defend your -self against mad dogs that doesn't exist either. it's a mad world!