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Complied information about traveling with longboards on airplanes. Nothing fancy just thought I'd share the info as I am traveling to Ireland with my board come december.
whenever i have flown i carry my deck only onboard. act confident, tell them you have done it before, it's always fit (46") and no one ever gives me ####. Just say you have higher authority permission etc. and they will leave you alone.
I've always just told the front desk security that i have permission to gate check it, that i've always gate checked it etc.
Basically just lie to everyone and tell them that you do whatever you are doing all the time and that you called and spoke to management and that they gave you permission. The key is to act confidently and everything should be fine.
If worse comes to worse just tell everyone that you are going to gate check your board (like people do with strollers and wheelchairs and stuff) they should let you get all the way to the gate, and then you tell the gate person that it goes in the overhead, but ask her for a gate check slip just in case, then carry it onto the plane and store it in the overhead. Shouldn't be a problem.
Basically just lie to everyone and tell them that you do whatever you are doing all the time and that you called and spoke to management and that they gave you permission. The key is to act confidently and everything should be fine.
Was this before September 11, 2001? Airport security reports to the federal government, not airline management. Good on you if you can get it through consistently, but at major airports it might be tough to convince them.
Was this before September 11, 2001? Airport security reports to the federal government, not airline management. Good on you if you can get it through consistently, but at major airports it might be tough to convince them.
small airports (like Tallahassee) and major airports (indianapolis, atlanta, etc.) and yes this was last year.
You are allowed to gate checks large more fragile items (guitars, didgeridoo, etc.)
if you don't want to try my method your alternative is packing it in a bag/snowboard bag, which is an extra 100 dollars to check, or ship it using fedex or whatever if you have an address
Blat. If you guys have more info for other airlines, post up!
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[jshalvorsen] 6:52 pm: but I got my GoPro, cones + trucks yesterday... so I'm just
missing my fullbag, and then I'm ready get my groove on.. oh, and I danced in a
stripping cage just 30minutes ago..
I went to DC maybe two years ago for a wedding and brought my 42in highland, never thought to take it on the plane though. It made me kinda worried to check it but I just put the board in the middle of a gigantic duffel bag surrounded by clothes to protect it, went there fine and came back fine.
to wendler: what kind of board were you trying taking? not sure what airline I took (I thought it was american) but because it was in my bag it was all gravy, no one even knew it was in there.
I guess I don't understand why you would even tell them you were taking a board, wood is tough and any board I have can fit inside of my gigantic duffel bag bought at an army navy store for like 20 bucks...except of course for the five foot LBL OSD.
Good list. Keep in mind though, the rules change when coming back some times. Just because you could carry on from the U.S., doesn't mean you can carry back. European airports have their own rules.
Had that happen to me in Amsterdam last fall at Schiphol airport. But they were nice and gave me some plastic bags to throw my boards in before I checked them.
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Hail the Church Of Skatan! Hella-you-yeah! Praise Steezus!
Make sure you tell the officials that you're going to "bomb some hills" with your board, and they'll let you through.
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Originally Posted by enemy combatant
As was so cogently pointed out by C.R. Stecyk III decades ago, skateboarding at its best is an anti-fascist activity that turns the modern industrial wasteland of concrete and pavement into a canvas for individual freedom and self expression. Riding what and how the skate industry corporate greedheads want you to is slipping back into robotic consumer drone status.
Mid July: Southwest from Seattle to Oakland to LA, no probs carrying on a Hellcat deck along with my backpack. Threw it up in the overhead bins, though it almost smacked a lady falling out when a guy opened the compartment.
Last winter: EVA Air from LAX to Japan, no probs carrying a Dervish complete. Japan to Taiwan, made me check it, but they bubble wrapped it for me(!)
Taiwan to LAX, no probs carrying on.
TSA doesn't seem to care about boards, their site doesn't have anything that says they're prohibited either, the limiting factor seems to be the airlines. The x-ray lady even asked me where the wheels were, haha.
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