Iberia and a Walking Staff

[Alan Pearce]

I have a ticket on Iberia Airlines for a flight from Madrid to Compostela in early May. The ticket says that it covers one piece of checked luggage up to a weight of 23 kg. I will have one piece weighing 10 kg, but I will also have a walking staff, 1.35 m long and weighing around 500 grams. Does anyone have experience of how Iberia will handle my request to check the walking staff along with my bag? This assumes that Korean Air will allow me to take from Sydney to Madrid in the first place!

Would devotees of walking poles please not suggest that I leave the staff behind and switch to walking poles instead. It will not happen.

Alan

Be brave. Life is joyous.

 

[whariwharangi]

Ask Iberia and Korean airlines ... they will have better information than anyone here can supply.

I'm sure any airline staff will acquiese once they learn that one of the esteemed persons on this forum was allowed to do it on a previous flight. Not.

 

[grayland]

Hi Alan...
Can you attach the walking stick to the other luggage in some way so that it is only one piece?

Maybe wrapped in cardboard or a tubo ( ; ) ) and taped strongly to the other.

 

[Connie Carstens]

Put the stick inside the backpac. By an teleskoper stick, no problems at all.



Connie R. Carstens DK

 

[peregrina2000]

Hi, Alan,
If the Iberia flight is part of your Korean Air ticket, Iberia will transport what Korean has checked. You won't pick up your luggage till you get to Compostela.

If you have a separate ticket, Iberia's maximum is 158 cm height x width x length, so it sounds like your stick will make it unless it is the world's fattest walking staff. I don't know if you can expect leniency from the check-in counter or not, but they would be entitled to charge you, it seems, if your ticket only allows one free piece of checked luggage.

 

[Alan Pearce]

Put the stick inside the backpac. By an teleskoper stick, no problems at all.



Connie R. Carstens DK

Thanks for the suggestion but buying a new stick is not an option. The one I wish to take has been on all my walks, and is decorated with a genuine Australian aboriginal design.

Hi, Alan,
If the Iberia flight is part of your Korean Air ticket, Iberia will transport what Korean has checked. You won't pick up your luggage till you get to Compostela.

If you have a separate ticket, Iberia's maximum is 158 cm height x width x length, so it sounds like your stick will make it unless it is the world's fattest walking staff. I don't know if you can expect leniency from the check-in counter or not, but they would be entitled to charge you, it seems, if your ticket only allows one free piece of checked luggage.

Thanks for your reply Laurie. The two tickets are separate, and both Korean Air and Iberia tell me that it will depend on the security people on the day whether or not I will be allowed to check the staff without paying extra. Korean allows you to check a fishing rod if it is accompanied by a fishing basket. If I wrap the staff in black plastic, then I could pretend to have the worlds' fattest fishing rod, and the worlds' funniest looking fishing basket!

Alan

Be brave. Life is joyous.

 

[ivar]

Just a note on this. A ticket bought on Iberia, might actually be flown by Vueling (Iberia owns Vueling)... Would not be surprised if Vueling might have different rules. I don't know, but check it out on wwe.Vueling.es

Buen camino!
Ivar

 

[Anniesantiago]

We have taken sticks in heavy duty mailing tubes to protect them.