Rucksacks on Flights

Following up to John Dawson said:

How do others cope with this situation?

dont even think about pushing the rules and make sure you know them
all. Pack your sack with a cover to stop it snagging. Take a disposal
or plastic bag on board with your valuables etc.
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Mike Reid
Cutty Sark appeal"http://www.cuttysark.org.uk"
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Dr Reid said:

Following up to John Dawson said:

How do others cope with this situation?

dont even think about pushing the rules and make sure you know them
all. Pack your sack with a cover to stop it snagging. Take a disposal
or plastic bag on board with your valuables etc.

You may well want to take a waterproof bag or compression sac for use
in your rucksack.

Use this for your handluggage - and wear your walking boots and
waterproof!

ISTR that someone rucksacs are available with a detachable top bag -
may suit your purpose.
Robert

Quoted message said:

Dr Reid said:

Following up to John Dawson said:

How do others cope with this situation?

dont even think about pushing the rules and make sure you know them
all. Pack your sack with a cover to stop it snagging. Take a disposal
or plastic bag on board with your valuables etc.

You may well want to take a waterproof bag or compression sac for use
in your rucksack.

Use this for your handluggage - and wear your walking boots and
waterproof!

ISTR that someone rucksacs are available with a detachable top bag -
may suit your purpose.
Robert

I'm going to need more than 50 - 60 litres for all the equipment I'll
be taking, which includes trekking poles, ice axe and crampons, some
of which can be attached to the sides of the rucksack when I'm there,
and some left at an hotel for a few days. So, I need to take my 100
litre holdall to get these into the aircraft hold. I have managed this
afternoon to find a 55 + 15 Karrimor Leopard which is about 54 cm
high, just within the limit, when partially full and which would
easily fit the other criteria for hand luggage. I think this model is
obsolete now but it would probably do. I'll take myself off to
Ambleside tomorrow with my trusty steel tape and see what else will
fit the bill. I won't need to put much in it for the flight so the top
doesn't need to expand above the frame until I'm at my destination.

John D.
--
John Dawson at home in Kendal, Cumbria.
Lake District Walks Web Pages http://www.lakedistrictwalks.com/
Kilimanjaro trip at http://www.lakedistrictwalks.com/kilimanjaro/
Sicilian Volcanoes http://www.lakedistrictwalks.com/sicily/

In article <[email hidden]>, John Dawson
<[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

I have managed this
afternoon to find a 55 + 15 Karrimor Leopard which is about 54 cm
high, just within the limit, when partially full and which would
easily fit the other criteria for hand luggage. I think this model is
obsolete now but it would probably do. I'll take myself off to
Ambleside tomorrow with my trusty steel tape and see what else will
fit the bill. I won't need to put much in it for the flight so the top
doesn't need to expand above the frame until I'm at my destination.

Beware that many if not all airlines specify a weight limit for hand
baggage too. I've not been on a plane for five years but airline hand
baggage limits used to vary between 5 and 7kg. I would check with your
airline what the limit is and be careful not to exceed it or you may be
asked to remove items from your hand luggage and place then in your hold
luggage at check in.

--

Dominic Sexton

My experience, since my first flight from Tangier to London in 1971, is that
hold baggage does not often go astray. My only experience was 2 yrs ago
when I went off to Bordeaux and my luggage ended up in Helsinki [British
Airways delivered to my Charente address 2 days later].

The bottom line is : can you go off trekking in the Pyrenees for 1-2 weeks
and pack within cabin baggage allowances, forfeiting all chances of taking
any Swiss Army knives, nail scissors, nail files etc?

If I take a Euro weekend break, its inevitable that within hours of getting
off the plane, I need nail scissors as I've split a finger nail, which is
then getting painfully snagged on everything.

I would not attempt to go on a longer trip without packing all sharps in
hold baggage, and packing my valuable and delicate items within a smaller
rucksack for the overhead locker.

Bill Morgan
Crickhowell, Powys

"John Dawson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

My experience of walking holidays abroad is rather limited and I've
always managed with a 35 litre sack which is within airline limits for
hand luggage. Shortly I'm going to the Pyrenees and I need a rucksack
of 50 - 60 litres capacity. In these days of taller and narrower
rucksacks the ones I've looked at are too tall to come within the
airline's (BA in this case) 56x45x25cm (22x18x10in) requirements. I
was thinking of a North Face Terra 60 but its dimensions are 77cm x
34cm x 21cm, significantly smaller than the specification in volume
but also significantly taller. I don't know if the rucksack squashes
down when it's not full as this would solve the problem.

I could put the rucksack in my holdall which would solve that problem
but I would still need some sort of hand luggage for odds and ends on
the flight, and that adds to the weight. Plus, having had my luggage
go missing when coming back from my last trip, I want to be able to
survive if the same happens on my next outbound trip.

How do others cope with this situation?

John D.
--
John Dawson at home in Kendal, Cumbria.
Lake District Walks Web Pages http://www.lakedistrictwalks.com/
Kilimanjaro trip at http://www.lakedistrictwalks.com/kilimanjaro/
Sicilian Volcanoes http://www.lakedistrictwalks.com/sicily/

In article <[email hidden]>, WILLIAM MORGAN
<[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

If I take a Euro weekend break, its inevitable that within hours of getting
off the plane, I need nail scissors as I've split a finger nail, which is
then getting painfully snagged on everything.

Pop an emery board in your toiletries kit...

--

Dominic Sexton

Bitstring <[email hidden]>, from the wonderful
person WILLIAM MORGAN <[email hidden]> said

Quoted message said:

My experience, since my first flight from Tangier to London in 1971, is that
hold baggage does not often go astray. My only experience was 2 yrs ago
when I went off to Bordeaux and my luggage ended up in Helsinki [British
Airways delivered to my Charente address 2 days later].

It depends on your airline, and whether it is a direct A->B type flight,
or if it involves changing at some hub someplace. American Airlines have
a really slick system for finding mis-routed bags .. they were always
able to page me before I even got to baggage reclaim and tell me exactly
where they had sent my bag, that wasn't 'here'. I figure being that
slick requires misplacing several million bags a year. Ok, that's only
1%, but still...

BA were slightly less slick - I had to tell them they had lost it. We
won't even talk about India Air, Alitalia, etc. (but you have to admire
the Italian hand waving).

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GSV Three Minds in a Can
8,963 Km walked. 1,746Km PROWs surveyed. 31.7% complete.