Hi Fernando,
I am just guessing here, but if you take your motorcycle as luggage on a plane
you might have a few minor problems.
- Checking your luggage. Does your motorbike fit on the scale they use for
weighing checked luggage? :confused1: And does it fit on the conveyor-belt ?
- Overweight. Most tickets come with 20 or 30 kg of luggage and 10 kg of
hand-luggage. Since hand-luggage needs to fit in the
overhead-compartments, that might present a bit of a problem.
![Nono](https://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hubb/images/smilies/nono.gif)
First of all, it
probably does not fit and second of all I just can not imagine a stewardess
helping you to lift your bike into the overhead-compartment. She might get
oil-stains on her uniform.
So it will become checked-luggage with about 200 kg of overweight. At 15 U$
a kg that might put you off.
- Trolleys. When you arrive at your destination you need to put your luggage
onto a trolley and show it to customs etc. Does you bike fit on the trolley?
Does the trolley fit through the doors with the bike on it?
![No](https://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hubb/images/smilies/no.gif)
Does it fit in the
elevator (sometimes you need to take a long long way around if your trolley
does not fit in the elevator).
All this kind of puts me off. And then I have not even considered a wooden
crate. Suppose your bike is crated and then you need to lift it into the
overhead-compartment... you get splinters in your hands etc.
OK, seriously now: Taking a motorbike as personal luggage is usually not
possible. Only at trains or larger freight boats with 'roll on, roll off' facilities,
but they usually are very expensive.
By the way, in Thailand you don't have to pay any customs or import duty's.
Not by sea, not by air. You get the same piece of paper that you get at any
land-border.
Only difference is that in the port you need to pay (a small sum) to the
shipping-company for handling and at the airport you need to pay a (even
smaller) fee for warehouse-storage.
Since at the land borders there are no warehouses and no forklift-trucks to
move your crated bike, you don't need to pay it.
Hope this helps (a bit...)
Maarten