I'm not going to be really helpful but:

GOOD LUCK !!!

Lots of threads here about who is the best carrier so maybe have a search.

Or, buy it when you get here and sell upon leaving, maybe you'll take a 20% hit
Strangely enough, I have some for sale...

Try Turkish Airlines from London-Singapore and then Tiger Air from Singapore-Perth. Both airlines charge excess baggage on sporting goods including windsurfers at price per bag.

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cheap flights and 30kg baggage allowance as standard, then I believe an extra 10kg on top with surfboard. I would check this first..

Your gear sounds very heavy too... 2x board =15 kg, 3x sail = 10kg, 2x mast = 3 kg, 1x boom = 2 kg.. not sure how that adds up to 50 kg in total!!!

Unless you are transporting a OneDesign... maybe lighter gear?

Al

flanagaj said..
I can fly Virgin to Singapore and get to take sports gear for free and pay for an additional bag at a nominal amount.

Be careful about code share, if you fly virgin but its actually Singapore airlines, then your stuck with Singapore airlines allowance which the last time I looked was not good.

The best way, to get windsurf gear from London to Australia, is London to Sydney with Virgin, (via hong kong), but then your a bit far from perth...

But depending on your plans a diversion with a domestic flight might be the cheapest option.

Qantas, are now much better for international, as they no longer seem to code share with BA (who will not take windsurf gear), and baggage policy seems much better now they have teamed up with emirates.

Emirates and Qantas are both good if you can live with 30kg, especially if your traveling with someone else. I managed to get two boards, three sails just on 30kg, in my double bag that I had made for myself.

@flanagaj,

Back in the day when I lived in Germany all you could take was 20kg on the Asia route. I had a friend who spend 6 weeks in WA every Christmas. He would air freight his rigs and take his boards on the plane. You chould get a few quotes for air freight excess baggage.

The reason why he would airfreight his sails was mainly to do with volume weight. When you air freight they will calculate the volume weight against the actual weight. What ever is bigger will be counted as the actual weight. Boards tend to have a higher volume weight compared to say a quiver bag.

All that said, if you fly via the US you will get a 64 kgs on most US airlines and Air NZ. If you fly Air NZ you might even be able to slip in a stop over in Hawaii / US East Coast / Fiji.