{"id":286506,"date":"2018-10-12T06:00:28","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T20:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=286506"},"modified":"2018-10-12T06:00:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T20:00:28","slug":"united-airlines-removes-surfboard-fees-for-flights-to-from-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/united-airlines-removes-surfboard-fees-for-flights-to-from-california\/","title":{"rendered":"United Airlines removes surfboard  fees for flights to\/from California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GUAM<\/strong>\u2014To celebrate California recently naming surfing as the state\u2019s official sport, United Airlines is removing the service fees for surfboards for customers traveling to or from California.<\/p>\n<p>Effective Oct. 5, customers traveling with a surfboard, wakeboard, or paddleboard on direct United Airlines or United Express itineraries that originate or end at any California airport will not have to pay the previous $150 or $200 service fee to check these items. The regular checked-bag fee will apply.<\/p>\n<p>To help preserve California\u2019s coast and oceans, United is donating $50,000 to Sustainable Surf, a California-based environmental nonprofit that operates as an innovation lab using surfing as a force for good\u2014to solve the ocean health crisis by 2050.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCalifornia made it official: surfing is our state sport. We want to make it easier for customers to surf our beautiful beaches, whether they\u2019re visiting or call the Golden State home,\u201d said Janet Lamkin, United\u2019s president for California. \u201cThis partnership continues our commitment to the environment by supporting an organization like Sustainable Surf, which helps keep our beaches beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSustainable Surf is thrilled to receive support from United Airlines to help us protect and regenerate ocean health,\u201d said Sustainable Surf co-founder Michael Stewart. \u201cWe see a very close alignment between our own work and United\u2019s Eco-Skies sustainability program. We are looking forward to partnering with United to better enable our shared goals and values of keeping the world clean.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Through United\u2019s donation, Sustainable Surf will continue to focus on a variety of programs that address environmental impacts on the ocean by educating local and global communities.<\/p>\n<p>United has operated in California for more than 90 years and connects almost 18 million annual passengers through its hubs in Los Angeles and San Francisco. United brings the world to California and Californians to the world, flying to more California, U.S. and international destinations than any other airline. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUAM\u2014To celebrate California recently naming surfing as the state\u2019s official sport, United Airlines is removing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[51,199,22967,181],"class_list":["post-286506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-guam","tag-sport-2-2","tag-sustainable-surf","tag-united-airlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}