Cycling UK Forum

Has anyone got experience of flying touring bikes with Easyjet this year? We need to know if both wheels or just the front wheel need to be removed? When they stipulate a bike bag, do they mean a manufactured one in which you have to take off both wheels or can we follow our usual practice of removing just the front wheel and inserting bike in a large seethrough plastic bag. All advice and experience during 2005 welcome please.

I've flown with easyjet several times (but not 2005) and you just had to turn the bars, removed pedals and semi-deflate tyres. No need to remove a wheel. Have been with ryanair and KLM this year. Any old plastic bag will do. Sometimes you have to heave bike onto outsize baggage belt. Not a problem at Liverpool airport.