Surfboard Baggage Fee Comparison 2011
When traveling with your surfboard, fees charged by airlines to get your board from A to B have to be taken into account. A cheap airline ticket can become a lot more expensive when you'r standing at the airport checking in your board and the clerk ask you for something like $200. Therefore, we want to give you a quick comparison of surfboard baggage fees of major airlines worldwide.
Surf Baggage Charges by Airline
- Aeromexico
- $60 / surfboard
- Air Canada
- $50 / surfboard
- Air France
- Metropolitan France: 20 €
- European flights: 40 €
- Other flights: 80 €
- Air New Zealand
- $25 / surfboard
- Air Tahiti Nui
- no charges for the first board
- American Airlines
- $150 / surfboard
- Alaska
- $50 / bag till 6’6″
- $75 / bag 6’7″ and larger
- Continental
- $100 for one bag with up to two boards
- $400 for one bag with up to three boards
- $700 for one bag with up to four boards
- British Airways
- 0€ but does not accept luggage larger than 1,9 m
- Condor
- $32,5 / surfboard longhaul
- $52 / surfboard longhaul
- registration required
- Delta Airlines
- $200 / surfboard
- Hawaiian
- $25 on inter island
- $200 on all other flights
- JetBlue
- $50 / surfboard
- Lufthansa
- Charges vary depending on the flight. Please Check Lufthansa's website
- Qantas
- Free
- Qatar
- less than 3m / normal exess baggage rules
- South African Airways
- Free up to 20kg
- Southwest
- $50 / surfboard
- TACA
- Up to three boards in one bag $100 / Some routs differ
- Up to three boards in one bag $100 / Some routs differ
- United Airlines
- $100 within USA
- $200 on international flights
- US Airways
- $100 / surfboard and way
- Virgin America
- $50 / surfboard
- Virgin Atlantic
- Free
Please note that we take no responsibility for the correctness of these rates. Please visit the respective website to check the most current charge.