Calm air to churchill
Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2019 7:29 pm
What is the story on calm air to churchill. Are they serious about 20lb carryon?
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Here's what I can tell you from personal experience. I flew with them from Winnipeg summer of '17 and assume things are the same now. At that time, they were flying two different aircraft to Churchill...............one was a 737 and then a smaller jet of some sort. You can probably look it up on their website. Anyway, I purposely chose flights on the larger of the two aircraft. The thinking being they may be less weight conscious on the larger aircraft. None of my carry on was weighed nor really looked at all that hard. Neither flight was full so that may have been a factor too. The other benefit of the 737 was also a significantly shorter flight.Wildflower-nut wrote:What is the story on calm air to churchill. Are they serious about 20lb carryon?
Always a good idea with any airline! The 3 times I flew on them (always in winter), they weighed my bags and gave me a hard time. One time they even left one of my checked bags in Winnipeg due to the plane being too heavy (it came about 6 hours after my arrival in Churchill)! Always ended up on the smaller plane where the overhead bins were extremely small. So my recommendation is try to slim down as much of your carry on weight as you can and where the clothes you want for the first day there (though I did see one time they tried to weigh the coat that another passenger was wearing (they had put stuff in the pockets).Wildflower-nut wrote:beginning to sound like prepare for the worst and hope for the best.
That must have been in the Dash 8 days - certainly wouldn't be a problem on a 737 as it wouldn't even need half fuel for the roundtrip plus fuel for an alternate.ricardo00 wrote:Always a good idea with any airline! The 3 times I flew on them (always in winter), they weighed my bags and gave me a hard time. One time they even left one of my checked bags in Winnipeg due to the plane being too heavy (it came about 6 hours after my arrival in Churchill)! Always ended up on the smaller plane where the overhead bins were extremely small. So my recommendation is try to slim down as much of your carry on weight as you can and where the clothes you want for the first day there (though I did see one time they tried to weigh the coat that another passenger was wearing (they had put stuff in the pockets).Wildflower-nut wrote:beginning to sound like prepare for the worst and hope for the best.