Ski bag weight and size limits by airline

Published ski bag weight limits across the twenty airlines in our database run from 15 kg on Transavia and TUI Airways to 32 kg on Austrian Airlines, Eurowings, Lufthansa, Luxair, SWISS, Vueling and Wizz Air. Length is the field that goes missing: eight of the twenty publish no ski length at all, and of those that do, some give a single side and others give the sum of three. The table below separates the two so you are not comparing 200 cm with 300 cm when they measure different things.

The table

Read from the airline pages on 16 September 2026. Weight is the limit that applies to the ski booking, not to your hold bag.

Airline	Weight limit	Length	What the airline publishes
Aer Lingus	23 kg	Not published	No ski dimensions on the sports equipment page
Air Dolomiti	Not published	200 cm	“A pair of skis max 2 metres long”; items over 2 m or 32 kg refused; weight follows the travel class limit
Austrian Airlines	32 kg	200 cm	200 cm length only; registered sports bags up to 32 kg and 3.15 m accepted
British Airways	Not published	190 cm	Bag must be within 190 x 75 x 65 cm; no separate ski weight published
Brussels Airlines	Not published	200 cm	200 cm length only; weight follows the checked bag limit of the fare
Condor	30 kg	200 cm	200 x 40 x 100 cm or 300 x 40 x 60 cm; heavier than 30 kg not transported
easyJet	20 kg	Not published	Small sports equipment up to 20 kg, large sports equipment up to 32 kg
Edelweiss	23 kg	200 cm	Winter sports equipment, 200 cm length only
Eurowings	32 kg	Not published	Up to 32 kg across a maximum of two pieces; no ski length published
Jet2	22 kg	Not published	22 kg per ski or board carriage set
KLM	23 kg	300 cm total	23 kg Economy and Premium Comfort, 32 kg Business; 300 cm is length plus width plus height
Lufthansa	32 kg	200 cm	Within the travel class limit, 32 kg absolute maximum
Luxair	32 kg	300 cm total	Length plus width plus height, maximum 300 cm
Norwegian	23 kg	250 cm	250 x 79 x 112 cm, maximum circumference 300 cm, not under 2 kg or over 32 kg
Ryanair	20 kg	Not published	Maximum weight 20 kg; excess charged at the per kilo excess rate
SWISS	32 kg	Not published	Ski and snowboard equipment grouped under normal sports equipment, under 32 kg and under 3.5 m
Transavia	15 kg	Not published	15 kg for the whole set; multiple sets must be packed separately, each under 15 kg
TUI Airways	15 kg	Not published	15 kg per set; two sets need two lots of carriage, up to 23 kg in total
Vueling	32 kg	270 cm	Up to 32 kg, maximum length 2.70 m
Wizz Air	32 kg	171 cm	Maximum size 149 x 119 x 171 cm

Why “not published” is so common

An airline publishes a length limit when the limit is really about the aircraft hold and the baggage system, and it stays quiet when the answer is “whatever the out of gauge belt takes”. The carriers with a published figure cluster at 200 cm. The low-cost carriers, Ryanair, easyJet, Jet2, Transavia and TUI Airways among them, publish a weight and leave length alone.

It does not mean there is no limit. It means the limit is not a number you can quote back at the desk. The airlines that do publish a ceiling sit at or above two metres: Vueling at 270 cm, Norwegian at 250 cm, Austrian Airlines accepting registered sports bags up to 3.15 m, SWISS describing its normal sports equipment category as under 3.5 m.

Three different ways to measure the same bag

The 300 cm figures on KLM and Luxair are not longer bags, they are a different sum. Both publish length plus width plus height, so a 190 cm ski bag that is 30 cm wide and 20 cm deep totals 240 cm and passes. Norwegian publishes three separate sides plus a circumference. British Airways publishes a box, at 190 x 75 x 65 cm. Condor publishes two alternative boxes, one long and shallow and one shorter and deeper.

Compare like with like before concluding that one airline is more generous than another. In our table, the Length column holds a single longest side where the airline gives one, and is marked as a total where the airline gives a sum.

The weight trap is pooling, not the limit itself

easyJet states that sports equipment weight cannot be pooled with hold luggage, so a 20 kg small sports equipment booking is 20 kg for the skis regardless of how empty your suitcase is. Ryanair charges excess over 20 kg at the per kilo excess rate. Norwegian charges EUR 15 per kilo per leg over 23 kg, and applies that ceiling to the ski bag and boot bag combined. Jet2 sells its ski carriage as an add on to hold baggage at 22 kg per set.

The other direction matters too. Lufthansa and Air Dolomiti tie the ski bag to the weight limit of your travel class, with 32 kg as the absolute ceiling above which the bag is refused. Brussels Airlines does the same but publishes no figure: the page says only that weight follows the checked-bag limit of the fare. Austrian Airlines publishes a ski specific ceiling instead: 32 kg for a registered sports bag.

What to check before you fly

Your airline’s ski weight limit and whether it is per bag or per set, since Norwegian and Eurowings count two bags towards one number.
Whether the limit pools with your hold luggage. On easyJet it does not.
What the length figure actually measures, a single side or the sum of three.
The excess rate, because it is charged per kilo and per leg, not per trip.
On network carriers, your travel class checked bag limit, which is what the ski rule usually points at.

Frequently Asked Questions

Which airline has the most generous ski bag weight limit?

Seven of the twenty publish 32 kg: Austrian Airlines, Eurowings, Lufthansa, Luxair, SWISS, Vueling and Wizz Air. That is the highest published number in the database, and on Lufthansa it is described as an absolute maximum rather than a target; Austrian Airlines accepts registered sports bags up to 32 kg and 3.15 m. Note that several of those carriers only reach 32 kg on fares that include the sports set, and that a bag anywhere near 32 kg is a two person lift, which matters more at a resort car park than it does at check in.

Is 15 kg enough for skis, boots and poles?

It is tight. Transavia publishes 15 kg and defines the set as skis or board plus boots, so the boots are inside the number. TUI Airways publishes the same 15 kg but excludes boots from ski carriage, so they count against your normal baggage instead, which effectively moves several kilograms out of the ski bag.

Why does easyJet appear with two different weight limits?

Because easyJet sells two sports equipment categories, small up to 20 kg and large up to 32 kg, at different prices. Our table carries the small category figure. easyJet does not publish which category a ski bag falls into, so confirm it at booking. This is also why automated answers about easyJet contradict each other: quoting the large category limit next to the small category price produces a combination the airline does not actually sell.

Does the ski bag replace one of my checked bags?

On KLM it does. The ski set travels instead of one checked bag, and on Light and Basic tickets that include no checked baggage it becomes a paid bag. British Airways counts a pair of skis or a snowboard plus one equipment bag as one checked item. Most of the low-cost carriers in the table sell ski carriage as an extra rather than a replacement, so the ski fee buys hold space and nothing else.