“Surfing was born in Hawaii. Wouldn’t you think Hawaiian Airlines would have some sort of support to our sport?
The Big Wave World Tour champion and four-time Jaws winner Billy Kemper has taken to Instagram to chastise Hawaiian airlines for refusing to carry his two surfboards, unlocking a Pandora’s Box of complaints from a who’s who of world surfing.
Kemper, who is thirty-three, cocks his face impassively, eyes burning with the ultra-alertness of a Haitian priest speaking through a freshly severed human head, as he delivers his coup de grâce.
“Surfing was born in Hawaii, it’s part of the HAWAIIAN culture. Wouldn’t you think @hawaiianairlines would have some sort of support to our sport? THIS HAS TO CHANGE!”
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The pile-on is impressive in its expanse.
“Ive had this same experience with @hawaiianairlines they told me leave my boards because i was 1lb over, not even a extra charge policy just said leave it we dont care,” writes Nathan Florence.
Mark Healey: “That’s why they’re called Hawaiian and not Aloha. Been dealing with that shit from them my entire adult life.”
Eli Olson: “When I won the Hawaii / Tahiti regional title and was trying to fly to California for the US Open to represent Hawai’i @hawaiianairlines never let me bring two of my boards that I needed. They told me leave the boards at the airport it’s not their problem.”
Torrey Meister: “Definitely time to bring awareness to this…..AGAIN! @hawaiianairlines absolute worst airlines for surfers and Ive flown on a lot of them. The most horrible board bag fees and senseless baggage policy stories I have had flying are definitely with you @hawaiianairlines
So many vivid memories from when I was a little kid trying to put my 4’11 surfboards on a Hawaiian airlines to go do events around the state of Hawaii and getting reamed with board charges, as you let 75pound golf bags go right by for free.
“To this day you are still doing the same thing! I started flying aloha airline back then and now I fly @southwestair as much as I can. Great staff, cheap flights, honest with their board fees, and if your board bag is under 50pounds they go on for free! Over 25years of flying around Hawaii and I can say you have never supported us surfers once! That’s why I stopped supporting you and tell everyone I know to do the same till we see some change. You know what they say about greed….”
Koby Abberton, with vomit emojis, “That’s why they charge so much they know all the islands are surfers. It’s robbery.”
And,
Shane Dorian, “SW is the shit! I love them. It’s ‘illegal’ to fly with 100 pound board bag, but they will allow you on the plane if you weigh 500 pounds. What’s that about? HA has some sketchy policies.”
You ever get heat for carrying boards?
I’ve shifted to the borrow a board when you get there model (thanks Paul Evans for recent Hossegor play date) although I imagine pro surfers and pro big-wave surfers have more sophisticated needs.
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I. Have. 24. Kilograms.
First world problems definitely. Next instagram post, ohh climate change is a bitch, lets all pick up trash on the beach, etc. Next post, hey guys check out my pick up truck. Fuck instagram already.
And for dessert, indulge in some sweet fat shaming from shame dorian.
WW3 is smoldering, but lets all pause for a moment and rally around poor Billy Kemper.
@hawaiianairlines please help #billynotcry
Billy is a wanker , hes just so important he doesnt know it
Billy Temper having a Kemper tantrum!
Well played
Two and a half million people without food or water and being bombed hourly in Gazza.
Pro surfer complains he can’t afford baggage fees on his surfboards.
Like…. Truly…really?
#FreeBillysBoards
Cereal…doesn’t RVCA pay for that shit anyways?
I mean the guy is a gimp, if he really wanted to get his boards to Maui he could have just flown to LAX and back with United.
Because Surfing is “the state sport of California”, surfboards to/from LAX/SFO fly for free on United.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
A tropical low is expected to form along a trough east of the Solomon Islands on Thursday or Friday.
The answer is simply don’t fly and just wait and walk to your local and surf perfect waves.
I’ve said too much.
Every cunt be flying here now?
Think of the environment whores!
Is there a bigger prick in surfing – Truly I’m interested! Okay let loose with dick size jokes!
Sorry bro, I´m on a surfing forum.
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“I hate to be the one to go on a rant” You could of fooled me Billy Boy!
Billy Kemper’s cunt level just went up somehow
Hzha fuck Dez, I feel a bit silly for lugging an 8’0” Padillac here now!
Xox
Tandems
borrow a board definitely the way to go for us normal humans. Won’t name names but have had a couple recent experiences where reached out in advance to a local connection who was a stranger (at least the first time I reached out) and who nonetheless met me in the middle of the night on day I arrived to hook me up with a couple boards to make the next morning’s dawn patrol. Still some good eggs out there, if you don’t act like a prick and do a little legwork in advance.
No worries RL. Anytime.
75 pound golf bag? Nah. Maybe Roy Powers golf bag weighs that much.
I love how Israel just issued a law where anyone with a dissident voice can be jailed. The sustainable fight for the free speech.
I mean caber tossing was invented in Scotland but I dont see BA giving cabers free carriage on flights to Edinburgh or the outer Hebrides.
They don’t even let the drunken lads on flights to Ibiza or Palma.
Surely Aer Lingus would have a tolerance for carry-on spuds though. Sorry Jimmy.
fuck
how many arseholes you have to push these many posts in a few hours
wtf
Pretty sure all Surfers in the World would have no complaints if Billy just stayed in Hawaii.
The “I’m working so its my wave” attitude just isn’t the prettiest look at someone else’s break.
The nice thing about mostly surfing waves in the chest high range is you don’t have to worry about BK showing up.
Imagine being airline staff and seeing guys rock up with 10’6 Jaws board bags stuffed with god knows what else and pikachu faces all day. I’d lie and tell them it’s illegal too.
Fuuuuck! If only there were other airlines that flew in and out of Hawaii. Dayummmm
McDonnell Douglas DC-3’s