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Pay and Pray: The Ongoing Surfboard Airline Saga
Pay and pray.
that’s the strategy for surfers when approaching the ticketing counter, boardbag in hand, moments away from bidding farewell to their precious cargo. Will you be slapped with an absurd fee to transport your sticks? Who knows. will they make it there in one piece, despite possibly breaking the bank? May the surf gods be smiling down on you.
Recently, we saw some incomprehensible damage to a quiver of boards involving Willem Beck, a surfer from the UK who was flying Ryanair from France to England. It was, without a question, one of the worst airline-on-boardbag crimes ever witnessed. And now, a month and some change after the incident, Beck is explaining what went down.
