[Jim]

Just flew to Bergamo and back with Ryanair and had no problems taking the Mondo there and back. I didn't pre pay it as sports equipment, but did measure it to check that it would fit through the airport scanner (I realised that that's the reason for their max dims when I watched it go through at the airport)

ryanair tried to charge us for our mats last year going to bergamo. they were much smaller than mondo's as well.

[sidewinder]

Going to be flying with some bouldering mats on Easyjet, I want to get this right as I know they can be 
I have looked on http://www.easyjet.com/EN/Planning/baggage.html it looks to me as if you only have to pay for sports equipment if you need more weigh allowance, not a problem for bouldering mats, so I am inclined not to do this.

Has anyone tried putting more than one in a bag such as this, which has the added advantage that I should be able to put my shoes in as well and still be well under the 20kgs limit. or should I just strap the two together?  Does anyone know what the size limit is for an item of checked baggage, I have looked here and can't find any reference to a size.

[edit]If anyone knows of a cheaper large bag source that would be cool, planning to try and fit the large and small alpkit mat in[/edit]