Taking a Pc on a plane?

Crossy

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Is this possible? (stated in name) as i might be visiting friends and id like to take my PC with me but theres no way in hell its going in the cargo hold. Are you allowed to Carry it through in your hand luggage? I know this may vary from Airline to Airline but was the Most possible answer?

ryan
 
Most PCs would be far too big and heavy to take on an airline as handluggage. Why not just wrap it up in bubblewrap and let it go in the cargo hold? It's not as if you need it during flight :confused:
 
If you have a biiig heatsink I would reccomend taking it off though, have seen one of them collaps in the post before.
 
why dont you take each indervidual part out of the case and wrap it up. obiously leasving in the psu and the motherboard and the cd drives or the hdd aswell. but seriously they wont let you take a full pc as hand luggage. i would love to see their face.
 
Attach a screen to it, and say it is a laptop? :p

I would say to wrap components up heavily, and then you can assemble the computer when you get off the plane. I doubt they would break too easily if you had a really strong suitcase.

Angus Higgins
 
Crossy said:
Is this possible? (stated in name) as i might be visiting friends and id like to take my PC with me but theres no way in hell its going in the cargo hold. Are you allowed to Carry it through in your hand luggage? I know this may vary from Airline to Airline but was the Most possible answer?

ryan
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No way will they let you. A colleague of mine needed to transport a Sparc Tadpole box from London- Johannesburg (much smaller than a PC) and had to put it in the hold....

These are designed to take some abuse and it got TRASHED :(
 
In december myself and a friend of mine took our full size computers to Dreamhack in sweden, packed away in an extra case, with the monitor pressed against it and all wrapped in foam / bubble wrap.

Problem is, it gets kinda heavy, KLM only allowed a maximum of 30kg's each i believe, and we were over that by quite a way, on the way there, we did not get done for excess baggage, but on the way back we got stung for around £120 due to being roughly 15-20 Kilo's over

Its possible for sure, but it takes the **** when it costs less for a plane ticket than for excess baggage, especially when the flight wasnt even full.
 
Morthoseth said:
In december myself and a friend of mine took our full size computers to Dreamhack in sweden, packed away in an extra case, with the monitor pressed against it and all wrapped in foam / bubble wrap.

Problem is, it gets kinda heavy, KLM only allowed a maximum of 30kg's each i believe, and we were over that by quite a way, on the way there, we did not get done for excess baggage, but on the way back we got stung for around £120 due to being roughly 15-20 Kilo's over

Its possible for sure, but it takes the **** when it costs less for a plane ticket than for excess baggage, especially when the flight wasnt even full.
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Yep KLM did me for £250 for bringing my wakeboard back from South Africa last month... Work picked up the tab

<3 my company :D
 
Personally I wouldnt recommend it, I bought a laptop for the express reason that I was leaving the country and there was no way in hell I was going to put my pride and joy in the hold. It costs too much to ship (placement years dont exactly pay much even foreign ones it seems), so it stays at home with a list of things for my parents to do every week or so, tis still ok surprisingly.
 
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