Originally Posted by
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Tourist in MSN - WOW Airlines. I have a help ticket open with them right now trying to sort out if boxes are allowed. Their site says bags, and so far customer service has said bags only.
As far as 27kg, I've seen it elsewhere, mostly foreign carriers. That is what Air Canada had for bikes last year.
Unfortunately even if I were to successfully argue that my bike should be allowed in a box, other members of my group bought their tix recently, and they're tge ones more worried about damage than me.
Since you bought your ticket early enough that you should be allowed to use bike boxes, could you take two boxes and your friend check your regular luggage bag on his ticket?
If WOW maintains that you can't have a box when you could have one at the time you bought your ticket, not sure which agency you could complain to, maybe FAA?
Even if you are successful getting your bikes to Iceland, once there you might have trouble getting them home again. Put the phone number for the USA embassy in Reykjavik into your phone so you have it if you need it to get your bikes home again.
I never thought I would be lucky in that my only travel nightmare to and from Iceland was Delta stranding me in the Minneapolis airport overnight. But it sounds like I was much luckier than you at this point.