United Airlines

Not forced, haha - I'm going to visit a school in Laguna I'm applying to so why not make a mini surf trip out of it. Also hoping to catch some of the Hurley Pro at Trestles

This is true, I've only flown a few times and have never traveled with a surfboard so I'm totally lost.

The largest board I would bring like 5'9 so I'm not even sure what bag to get to overstuff and protect it. I'm not afraid it getting a little dinged up (won't be traveling with a new board thats for sure) but I'd hate to get out there and it's totally busted..

 

glad to share. upon arrival at baggage, there it is and 'blank' happened to it.
no no no
no no no no
NO NO NO!!! (WTF)!!!!!!!

hey you yeah you WTF!!!!!
what! what!

I PAID EXTRA SO THIS COULD HAPPEN?

(break radio silence)
could you step away from the carousel, sir...
(break)
....see some identification please.....(well, you see, its like this...) WTF!!!!!@%^%^$#%*&&^%$...sob...

 

I would probably get detained and treated like a terrorist for going ape sh*t on them if something happened to my board. I have flown to Rincon PR with my 6'4" Coil a couple of times with Jet Blue and she doesn't have a scratch on her and they only charge $50 each way. I recommend Jet Blue to everybody.

I know part of it not getting messed up is the quality / durability of the board itself, but I also wrap the rails in that foam plumbing tubing, it's already got the slit down the middle so you just wrap that stuff around the rails and then put a long piece of it down the center of the board, then wrap it up in a big sheet with tape wrapping around it all to hold it all together. I cut out smaller pieces of the foam to fit in swallow tail and tape it all together too. After wrapping it up nice and tight, I then put it in my FCS travel bag. Hasn't failed me so-far.