Airline Travel Tips

Airline Travel Tips

With airline travel becoming ever so popular with surfers these days, it's important to know the facts when travelling with your boards. Surfers are finding themselves able to access many different types and varieties of surf breaks all over the globe with flights ranging from short trips across Europe to long haul flights reaching the warm and exotic beaches of the southern hemisphere. Here are a few airline pointers to help guide you in your decision making when it comes to booking your flights.

There are some awesome airlines that will allow you to take your twig as part of your luggage allowance.

Virgin (Europe)
Interjet (Mexico)
Qantas (Australia)
Singapore (Asia)
South Africa (duh)
Air New Zealand
Qatar Airways (New 2014)

Of course there are a few airlines that charge a small fee for you to take your surfboard. All in all we think most surfers are fine with a small charge as long as we get a good service from the airline provider.

Below is a list of some airlines that unfortunately feel that surfboards deserve a charge greater than what is what we deem sensible.

American
Cathay Pacific
Continental
Hawaii Air
Lan
TACA
United

The following list is of airlines that think they can charge you crazy money for a simple surfboard.

Japan Air
Delta
Iberia
Lufthansa
US Air
Northwest

Now we get to the airlines that when you hear the price it makes you cry inside! With obscene luggage costs and hidden taxes, you have to be off your rocker or a multi millionaire to consider these options.

Alitalia
Swiss Air
Thai Air Per Board
United
All Nippon