{"id":1454,"date":"2008-08-22T08:52:23","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T15:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1454"},"modified":"2008-08-22T08:53:31","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T15:53:31","slug":"airline-surfboard-baggage-fees-blow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1454","title":{"rendered":"Airline Surfboard Baggage Fees Blow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/41759743-1.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/41759743-1.jpg','popup','width=500,height=350,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/41759743-1-tm.jpg\" height=\"140\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"41759743-1\" \/><\/a>The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-surfboardfees22-2008aug22,0,2223741.story\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a><\/strong> has finally dropped in on the story that has had surfers around the world getting more and more pissed off each day: the outrageous fees airlines are charging to fly with a surfboard.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Surfers note that most airlines don&#8217;t charge for golf bags, while surfers are paying as much as $300 a board for international flights. That&#8217;s nearly as much as a new board can cost. Avid surfers take as many as four boards in a bag, which can mean a $1,200 bill, or $2,400 for a round trip. . . . The charges have gotten so gnarly that some professional surfers are calling for a boycott of airlines that have high fees and are putting out their own <strong>personal lists of surfer-friendly carriers<\/strong> that wave riders should patronize. One of the hottest surfing websites is now also a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfline.com\/travel\/boardbag_charges.cfm?id=15425\" target=\"_blank\">guide to airline fees<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We agree and have decided that from now on when we travel to Hawaii we&#8217;re going to just buy boards off the rack when we get there and sell the off when we leave. Sadly, that doesn&#8217;t work in many places with great waves.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-surfboardfees22-2008aug22,0,2223741.story\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LA Times has finally dropped in on the story that has had surfers around the world getting more and more pissed off each day: the outrageous fees airlines are charging to fly with a surfboard. Surfers note that most airlines don&#8217;t charge for golf bags, while surfers are paying as much as $300 a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}