Flying with a surfboard on Vueling
Sports fee.
Booking: Add as special baggage in your booking; limits shown there
- paid special baggage, fee varies by route
- must be well packed
- at some airports (e.g. Barcelona) it arrives on a separate belt
- Iberia's page lists a 3.5 m, 23 kg rule and EUR 45 per flight for Vueling-operated flights sold by Iberia
Vueling's sports baggage page · checked 2026-10. Rules and fees change: check before you fly.
What surfers say
- Damaged (2021, ACE-VLC): A Spanish windsurfer's foil board (not a surfboard) was found broken in several places at the baggage belt after a flight home from a Lanzarote event. After phone calls and formal complaints Vueling offered 50 euros, against a replacement costing over 3,000 euros. source
- Damaged (2013): In a long complaints thread, one poster said their surfboard bag came back damaged after a Barcelona trip and the only answer from the airline was to write a letter to its Madrid office. source
Surf trips on Vueling
Morocco, Taghazout (Agadir), Morocco (Marrakesh), Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Tenerife South, Cantabria (Santander), Algarve, Lisbon, Ericeira, Peniche, Senegal (Dakar).