Now is the time to ‘BOGOF’ with your friends for a spot of skiing or après ski. This is because Jet2 are for a limited time, offering you buy one, get one free on ski carriage for group bookings of 10 or more people. With so many snow-blanketed destinations to choose from at Jet2 it couldn’t be easier to convince your friends that some serious slaloming on the slopes is the perfect way to spend your winter.

The subject of the price of ski and board carriage charged by nearly all airlines has been our pet moan for several months now, with the leading offender being Ryanair, who seems to think it’s good customer service to charge £80/80€ for return carriage of one pair of skis or a snowboard.

Well, maybe the airline is listening to the negative comments, as the lowest of the low cost airlines has announced today that it is offering free ski and board carriage for the first 10,000 passengers who book a return ski flight before midnight on Wednesday the 11th November.

Ski flights operated by Ryanair include Grenoble from Birmingham, Liverpool and Stansted as well as Turin from Bristol, East Midlands and Stansted.

You can book your Rynair flights with Skyscanner.

Ryanair announced today that passengers who book a ski flight before midnight Thursday (1 October) can bring their skis for free.

Ryanair’s Winter Ski Programme 2009/10 offers 50 weekly flights from 7 UK airports to ski destinations in Cuneo, Grenoble, Lourdes, Salzburg and Turin at the lowest ski fares in Europe this year!

Ski routes from Birmingham, Bristol, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow (Prestwick), Liverpool and London Stansted are available now from just £19.99 one way (incl taxes and charges) on Ryanair.com.

Snow flakes are already falling in Europe and skis and snowboards fly free with bmibaby. The snow has already started to fall in Switzerland and the Eastern Alps giving the promise of a white winter for all the snow bunnies out there. Low cost airline, bmibaby, is encouraging snow lovers to book now to take advantage of its latest promotion — skis and snowboards fly free, saving £17.99 per person per flight.

It’s as easy as 123 — Virgin Atlantic’s new baggage policy

• Extra allowance for passengers with sporting equipment
• Only UK long-haul airline to carry skis and surfboards
• Flying Club Gold Card holders can take one additional bag in any cabin

Winter sports fans travelling to resorts with British Airways next season face charges to carry their skis and snowboards under a shakeup of baggage charges. For passengers booking from July 31 onwards and travelling after October 7, sporting equipment will cost £40 per bag on long haul or £35 on short haul flights if it is in addition to their free checked luggage allowance. There is a discount if you book online.