Hi everyone, we have just successfully got our bikes to Toronto from London using Air Canada's Fly Your Bike scheme. Woohoo! Thought that this may be of help to people who are looking to use the same or similar route in the future :-) Jade and Alex :-)

Fly Your Bike Air Canada - a how to guide - Wander don't Wonder

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Fly Your Bike Air Canada - a how to guide - Wander don't Wonder

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I used their service to fly my bike from London to Vancouver a couple of weeks ago and it could not have been easier at either end.

Very nice! I also just shipped my bike from Montreal to Bogota this week with Air Canada Cargo.

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That's great i didnt know they did that route!

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I think we may have met you in the cargo office?! BMW R80?

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That was probably me.

They do not advertize it.

From what I gather, they easely ship to Colombia from Canada but I was told on the phone by a rep they dont ship back to Canada from Colombia.

Hope someone proves me wrong.

jfman

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I heard they don't ship back aparently because lots of riders had a hard time be at the airport on time for departure.

Thanks for the shipping info, but please post it in the Shipping Database so those who don't find this thread CAN easily find the information!

For shipments already made, see Shipments by Travellers | Horizons Unlimited

To enter YOUR shipment, see http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/node/add/shipping

Thanks!

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Done! Good luck to all travelers shipping their bikes!

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Thanks jfman!

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Thank you so much for this!

The most probably reason that Air Canada does not offer motorcycle shipping northbound from Bogata to Canada is because Air Canada can make much more money shipping flowers northbound from Columbia. Colombia is the 2nd largest exporter of flowers in the world (2nd only to Netherlands), and every day numerous 747 and other large freighter aircraft head north full of nothing but flowers.

To an airline, shipping a motorcycle is like shipping popcorn... the motorcycle takes up a lot of space, but relative to other air freight, the motorcycle weighs nothing. Air Canada can make some "money for nothing" by putting a motorcycle (average weight perhaps 600 pounds) into an empty container that is capable of holding 6,000 pounds... they have to ship the empty container back down south anyway, so why not stuff a motorcycle into it?

But, when it comes to northbound cargo, shipping 6,000 pounds of time-sensitive flowers in the same container pays a heck of a lot more than shipping a motorcycle in the same container.

If you pressed hard enough and were persistent enough, you could get Air Canada to ship your moto northbound, but you would not want to know what the price would be... my guess is it would cost you about $4K.

Hope this puts things in perspective.

Michael

I have heard both of these explanations before. The former is the one the reps from AC hinted on.

But also when I flew into BOG, I saw all of those flower greenhouses all over.

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A note of warning to anyone returning a UK registered bike to London, my bike flew in yesterday from Vancouver and I joined it today, when I went to collect it the customs clearing agent asked me for the date of original exportation and a copy of the paperwork to go with it saying customs required this.
In the previous 5 or 6 times I have returned a bike I have never been asked for this and had deleted the relevant email and as it was 18 months previously Air Canada were unable to help.
The situation was finally resolved when I found a copy I had forwarded to an old email address and I was on my way shortly afterwards but a lesson learned about what seems to be a new requirement. I have no idea if this applies to bikes returning to North America but I have never heard of it there.