This morning the Frankfurt Air Canada Air Cargo Office (say that 5 time really fast) sent me the 2018 shipping rates Frankfurt - Canada

I brought a bike home from Europe last year using this service and we are shipping a newer bike back over this spring. For convenience, we are arriving on a Sunday and will have Stefan Knopf pick up our MC and take if to his facility in Heidelberg.

On weekends there is a different AC freight office used for importation (different office location than where the MC will be sitting) who are, less accustomed, to receiving motorcycles. I am not that keen on going back and forth between Cargo offices located quite some distance on a Sunday.

If we were flying in on a weekday I would deal with the MC myself

Other European Countries and Canada to Europe Rates should also be available on the various countries' Air Canada websites over the next few weeks.

Motorcycle Shipping

https://www.aircanada.com/cargo/en/s...otorcycle.html


Track your shipment

http://www.aircanada.com/cargo/en/tools-forms/


E booking tool

https://cargoservices.aircanadacargo...ster-owner.jsp

Would you be willing to tell us how much they are charging you? Or direct our attention to any pricing which is included in the links you just posted? Thanks.

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https://www.aircanada.com/cargo/shar...rochure_en.pdf

Really great to see that AC is seeing potential in this market and spreading the number of locations they're flying into

Bill, stop in Zagreb for a /coffee if the road takes you in our direction this time.

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Dooby

I'll be flying myself and my bike to Europe in about ten weeks.

I spoke on the phone with Air Canada and confirmed they can ship to Athens, Greece. I was quoted (an estimate ) of $1,400 to fly my bike from Vancouver, Canada to Frankfurt Germany. I expected the charge to Athens to be quite a bit more but I was wrong. I was quoted $1,500. Given that I want to start my trip in a warmer portion of Europe in about the 2nd week in May this seems too good to pass up.

We still have to wait 28 days prior to leaving before booking the bike's flight. I'll probably book my personal flight this week or next and just hope that they still offer Athens as April approaches. I don't want to be in a situation where I book myself to Greece and at the last minute Air Cargo decides not to go there. That would really screw up my plans.

The dangerous cargo certification sounds easy enough. There is no physical inspection of the bike needed. Simply fill out a couple of lines of information and check boxes stating you aren't bringing any prohibited items and your dangerous cargo document issuer will do just that; issue the needed documents. You then take those with your bike to Air Cargo between 6 and 24 hours prior to the bike's flight with the positive battery terminal disconnected and less than 1/4 tank of fuel and you are good to go. This is all straight from their website and from my phone conversation on Monday.

I do have a couple questions for those who have done this.

1) The dangerous goods certification needs to be done for both the departing and returning flights. If I understand this process correctly, if I leave from and return to the same airport, in my case Vancouver, I can get duplicates of my certification forms and NOT have to get them done a second time, in a foreign country. Can anyone confirm this? Given the magnitude of this undertaking and the overall expense involved, I have decided to fly out of Milan to eliminate back tracking. Milan is somewhat central at least for where I want to travel to. I want to make sure that the duplicate forms work for not just taking off to and from Vancouver but also landing in Athens but taking off from Milan and not Athens. I imagine most people DO NOT do this and I don't want to be trying to fly out of Milan and then have to find a dangerous goods certificate supplier at the last minute, in a foreign country.

2) It seems like most people fly to Frankfurt. For those of you who have gone elsewhere, can you confirm that the difference in price between Frankfurt and wherever you flew to was not that much money? Again in my case I was quoted only a $100 difference. I don't like the idea of my bike changing planes a bunch of times but that shouldn't be any worse than luggage changing planes . . .

Thank you.

NC

Hey Guys -

i would like some help.
I have been Quoted from Air canad. $1000 CAD to fly my bike from Montreal, to London. and "between $1000-1200" return flight from London to Vancouver.

They mentioned the dangerous goods form that is "somewhere between $150-$250" and specificed if i ask for two copies i wont have to have the inspection/forms done on my return trip, just turn in the second copy that i got in Montreal.

This price is based off me already having an Air canada personell flight.

i hope this information is helpful, and i would hope someone can help me with a Question i had?

Say i send my bike a day or a flight before myself. Once landed, i cant find a straight answer for what insurance i need or who i get it through. Do i just use my current policy? (its from the USA) i know theft coverage is out of the question but i dont know if once i get on my bike and ride off, am in the clear?

or is there additional registration/insurance check ups or anything i need to go through ,as ill have US registration and insurance. I really hope someone can help, and im sorry if this is the wrong thread to ask, but hopefully my info above from Air Canada can help some people. This information was given to me over the phone as of an hour ago.

additional info - i only have 11 days between landing and my return flight. What kind of insurance/registration info do i need to have a bike from the US , in Europe for less than 2 weeks?

Thanks
Buddy-Joe

You need local insurance. Your US policy will not cover you anyplace but the USA and Canada.

The situation is somewhat complicated as well as subject to change. Do a site search and you'll turn up some recent info. For example, #12 on this thread: http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hub...-austria-91184

You might end up wishing you'd chosen mainland Europe rather than the UK, since EU insurance isn't difficult to find. But most people would have first concluded that shipping a bike twice across the Atlantic just for the sake of 11 days riding is a large-scale waste of money. Have you thought about renting instead? You could probably save a bundle of money (or hire yourself an Aston Martin or Bentley instead).

Hope that's helpful.

Mark

Hi Buddy-Joe,

As we have been mentioned already by community members in this thread, i'm just chiming in so you can ask directly in this thread or in our thread that has been linked already http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hub...een-card-93020

Have a great weekend,

Cheers
Dooby

Hi Mark,

The pricing isn't listed as of yet.

Your best bet is to call Air Canada Cargo.

Last year when I brought my 990 home from Frankfurt It was about $1700 cdn if I remember correctly.

There are some price factors that change the base rate

1. If you fly on a paid ticket it is less expensive.

I flew both ways on Aeroplan points with United and saved approx 500 cdn on taxes . I flew Vancouver-San Fran- Frankfurt return. so I saved the cost of a return flight

2. The price in Europe is paid in Euros and depending on the airport you fly out of the cost for handling changes. Paris was a few hundred Euros more expensive to fly out of than Frankfurt.


Regards,

Bill