Hi All, I'll add a few words - Scott mentioned that I have been carrying on my small guitar-bodied HG into the cabin in a soft case with no problems - until now of course! I had flown out to France before the recent scare and this morning I had to get back home. Easyjet at Nice airport were not allowing any hand bags at all (just a plastic carrier bag with a few personal items, but no mobiles, ipods, drinks...). There is no way you could blag an instrument into the cabin in the current situation. People were being forced to check laptops. So I had to check my HG in its soft (but well-padded) case with its nice easyjet-orange fragile stickers. There was no special handling as the oversize luggage desk said it wasn't oversized (which was true). I had assumed all airports had some special handling routes for fragile items, it seems this is not so. Fortunately the instrument survived so at least they must have kept it near the top of the pile of luggage.....
Paul
