Helmets on Frontier Airlines?

Has anyone flown Frontier recently with a helmet? Their list of allowable items doesn't include them, and the default answer from the out-of-country phone bank representative was if its not on the list you can't take it. Then I was told that the on-the-ground staff might have different rules.

just wear it as Covid protection

I always carry my helmet and have never been questioned . It is a delicate piece of my safety equipment that no baggage handler is going to toss around or bang off the side of the plane or crush. Period.

Not Frontier, but United and Allegient. The times I’ve taken a helmet I put it in my “carry on” which was a waterproof duffle for the bike. I usually use my tank bag or a pannier liner, for my “personal item.”

in June I rode up to NC and ended up flying home because of weather. I left my helmet and jacket with the bike but wore my boots and Traverse pants. At the AVL airport I had to strip off my Traverse pants (in private) because the armor was giving a red flag on the xray. On the trip back 3 weeks later, I removed all the armor and put it in my bag to avoid the same scenario. The only thing they asked about at the SRQ airport was why I had a 21” motorcycle tube in my luggage LOL.

FWIW the SW Motech pannier liner bags are the exact dimensions allowed by Allegiant for a “personal item” which you place under the seat and is allowed with out paying any extra fees.

Never an issue on American or United, I just pit it in a a helmet bag or backpack, never questioned so can't imagine Frontier would.

I fly frontier

They can be picky on carry on...they have a sizing bin to check at every gate ...it likely will not pass that test

But

Just wear it on ...they can not object to that

Good luck

Scott

tell them it's you PPE and wear it on the plane if they object

There are several other threads on carry on riding gear. I've taken my helmet and use my pillion seat soft bag as carry-on luggage.
Check out ebay for a military pilots helmet bag if your not gonna wear it on.

Flew with frontier last year and used a helmet in a helmet bag as my personal item and then my duffel as my carry on. Worked fine for me.

Tell them you don't trust the pilots flying skills.

As an update: I had my hemet in its bag as a personal item carry-on, with my jacket jauntily swung over my shoulder and a book tucked under my arm. No questions were asked.