Airline ski baggage rules

What your airline charges to fly your skis

Read from each airline's own page, quoted, dated and linked. No guesswork from old forum threads.

The airlines people ask about most

Every airline that lands there in winter, with its ski bag rule beside it.

Do ski boots count as hand luggage? Airline by airline
Four of the twenty airlines we track say ski boots may go in the cabin. The rest do not address it. The table, with each airline's own wording.
Ski bag weight and size limits by airline
Published ski bag weight limits run from 15 kg to 32 kg, and half the airlines publish no length at all. The table and what the blanks mean.
Renting skis in the Alps or flying with your own: the real sum
The airline side of the rent or fly question, priced from published fees, for one traveller and a family of four, with the break even you work out yourself.
How to pack skis and boots for a flight (and what the airline weighs)
What counts as one ski item on twenty airlines, whether two pairs fit in one bag, where boots and poles belong, and which number gets weighed.

From the airline itselfEvery rule is read on the airline's own baggage page or fee schedule, never copied from another site.
Quoted and datedEach airline page shows the airline's wording, the link and the day we read it.
Re-checked through the seasonA monthly job re-reads every page it can reach, the rest are read by hand in October and January. Changes are logged with the old and new value.