I was looking at baggage fees yesterday and it's been years since I had to fly meat home, but WOW prices went up. I was looking at Delta since that looks to be the best flights. It's a 30 hour drive each way for us, NH to WY, we are considering driving but that basically adds 6 days.
First checked bag: $25
Second checked bag: $35
Third Checked bag: $150
Bags 4-10: $200 each
Each must be 50 lbs or less. So, there's two of us going, deer/antelope is the goal. Going to have taxidermy done in WY and shipped, so coming home:
- we each can have a carry on (probably can put meat in that, but only so much)
- double rifle case
- checked bag with clothes
- Figure 40lbs per antelope and 80-100 lbs per deer, that's minimum of 160 lbs of meat, so 3 boxes and we can spread the other 10 lbs out in carry on or with the clothes.
25+35+100+200+200 = $575 to bring meat home. Even if I ship the guns/clothes home we are still looking at $170 plus whatever to ship the guns/clothes home.
Any idea what it would cost to buy a cooler, load it up, dry ice it and ship it 2nd day air? Might be worth it.