Getting robbed on an ultra low cost regional airline!
There are only four certainties left in this life. The sun will rise in the morning. Guns don’t kill people, I do. Three is a crowd. And Kelly Slater hates spending money. He hates spending it, I think, on anything but really really hates spending it when he thinks he shouldn’t be. Like today for example. It is Easter Sunday in the United States of America and also April Fool’s day. I generally loathe April Fool’s jokes, especially April Fool’s surf jokes but I haven’t seen any today so am hoping that Easter mowed over the lame.
Whatever the case, 11x World Champion Kelly Slater took moments out of his Easter/April Fool’s celebrations to complain about ultra low cost regional airline Jetstar’s baggage policy.
Kelly writes on Instagram:
@jetstaraustralia loves thier baggage charges. Apparently the people checking you in get a kickback on what they charge you at the end of the month. Overweight charges equate to about $.50/ounce!
Just paid over $200 MEL – OOL for baggage, more than the price of my ticket… again. I’ll never learn. Just FYI, not an April Fool’s joke.
Now. $200 Australian is roughly $150 U.S. which is a smokin’ deal for a ticket from Melbourne to Coolangatta. But with smokin’ deals come nightmare headaches. I don’t know if anyone has informed Kelly yet but the low ticket price for ultra low cost regional airlines is what’s called a loss leader. It doesn’t cover the gas in the plane much less the upholstery on the seats. Those who feel they are getting a deal are soon dealt a full deck of $50 dollar charges covering everything from wearing shoes onto the airplane to breathing. I was once charged $50 for bringing a briefcase onto Jetstar and another $50 for breathing (after I passed out and my body started doing it reflexively).
I get that surfboard baggage fees can be extreme but how much does it cost to surf Surf Ranch again? Is it $10,000 for a few hours?
Yeah?
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it’s $10,000 for 1 hour…
Lime does not go with the men who religiously savour the Ale labelled “Pride of the South”
A bloke tried to live off the nutrition in beer for an experiment (excuse). Eat Beer = Get Scurvy was the takeaway
Chas, you probably don’t care, but you got an honorable mention from “Aint That Swell” podcast for unsuccessfully wringing Goggin’s neck.
Why not just fly Virgin. It’s almost the same price and with playful air hostesses to boot.. and food and drinks free. What a whinger.
This from the same man who expects you to pay over a hundred US dollars on a T-shirt?
G.O.A.T.
Greatest Of All Trolls
Yeah, Kelly!!!!!!
Yeah, jimbo!!!! how is the Brazilian 5-10 knot SSW breeze going? it getting hard to pin it on Richie porta.
?? Italo and Toledo are the Word’s best surfers in 2018. And beyond.
have you taken your Medina shaving posters down?
in the whole wide word?
Well, JJF for sure isn´t
200 bucks for a couple of thousand kilometres in a couple of hours or 2000 bucks for a couple of waves in 2 hours. hmmm
That’s our man .”This is going straight to the pool room”.He might have been working for Surfing Australia at the Nudie Boardriders Math Competition .
“Dad reckons that fishing was 10% brain and 95%muscle.And the rest was just good luck. “ ?
He shoulda just gave them 2 beanies.
CEO of Jetstar should post he cant believe he was charged $195 for a fucken flanno.😂
Would be worth the purchase for publicity alone.
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#violinsforkelly
Under the new judging scale ,the transitional ( turn ) flanno’s value , has probably been reduced to below A$100.
Your right, and thats only 4 times the cost it was to make at $25.
So yeah, cheap.
$100 for a beanie fairly steep hey.
I’ve been wearing a beanie everyday since December,in a town where I’ve still got snow in the garden in Spring, but never in my wildest dreams would I swap 2 cases of Beer( at the very inflated Australia price ) for a glorified Tea Cosy .
OK does offer free shipping. thats something.
Most Syrians complain about jets are rush’n to drop ordinance on them unexpectedly, not jetstar rushing to drop excessive surcharges on them unexpectedly.
Sounds like a line from the Lebanese character in the multilayered Australian comedy The Castle .
Here Plane fly over make noise and everyone complain .
In Lebanon plane flyover drop bomb .
that 50 sounds too cheap too be true.
For 285$ U.S. dollars he could have bought himself the Outerknown “Jetlag” Crew Sweater. Free shipping.
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When I saw this on his story I was fueled up. I wanted to bang out a retort on the price of all his goods and services, but I didn’t. Somehow I knew our man of the people would bang out a few hundred words and low and behold, he did!
I’d hate to deflect attention away from Robert… Even though I feel he owes me as I moderated the comments pretty hard in his favour awhile back when BeachGrit ran a Slater Mom story, I’m completely aware this may result in some form of backhanded action from the man himself but I’ve just got to say how happy I am that my pop-up adverts here at the Grit have gone from Pasty plus sized singles to a pretty fine looking Asian lady.
Google is your friend.
Ha! I’ve been getting Naughty Moms.
I get “Fitness Singles.” I am interested in neither! (also I have tracking cookies blocked, so I’m not that much of a sleazebag)
You don’t get rich by writing a bunch of cheques.
At refugee camps all over the world, the children of war pause to reflect on this injustice. #prayforke11y
The beer is reasonably priced, but the peanuts! Oh my!