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Re: Hawaiian Airlines no longer accepts bikes in soft cases [devashish_paul]
Soft case??? Never Again.

If you actually talk to those who work for the airlines you will quickly learn they don't give a crap about anyone's belongings. Each item (bike, golf clubs, suitcase, whatever) is literally **thrown** four times onto different conveyer belts/vehicles each one-way flight. If you are switching planes, double that number. The baggage workers are a part of a contract company that move bags for most airlines at your airport. The only thing they care about is making their strict timelines on moving bags from A to B.

This past July, I traveled for the Santa Rosa 70.3. I saw the baggage people **throw** 5 bike softbags on their sides, stacking them on top of each other for transport off the plane to baggage claim.

In an Evoc triathlon soft bag, I've had $2000 worth of damage to my bike on two different flights during one triathlon trip. United blamed me for using a soft case, claimed responsibility for the damage and refused to pay anything. Within 2 weeks a Navy seal had total $10K bike loss on United (soft bag) and they refused to pay him anything. He has a cracked frame. I had a fork broken almost in two. Evoc felt so bad that they refunded me the cost of the $600 bag. If you want to read about it... https://forum.slowtwitch.com/...rum.cgi?post=4702229



devashish_paul wrote:
RBR wrote:
NUFCrichard wrote:
RBR wrote:
I would never fly with my bike in a soft case nor a cardboard box anyways


Professional Teams use them all the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXxT9m7yw30


If I had someone buying my bikes for me and flying them for me I wouldn’t care


My flying miles stats suggest my soft case has a good track record. I hear of many of my peers having things destroyed in the hard case, often when the case falls off a big pile. The baggage handlers TEND to handle the soft case "softly" and the hard cases more "harshly". There is a reason for this. The soft case is way lighter. They don't have to apply a lot of force to move it around like the hard case.

It's the same logic people use to drive a large vehicle like an SUV thinking they are safer, but the accidents per mile for compact vehicles like a Sentra or Jetta are far lower since they are more manouevreable. But most people don't get the stats of the full journey. They just look at hardware parked in a spot and make a psychological assessment of safety based on physical appearance.
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