My colleague just left JFK Airport (NYC) and returned to Munich (via KLF
through Amsterdam) -- he took TWO instruments back with him as carry-on: a
bowed Psaltery (no case whatsoever, just stuffed inside his handbag) and a
small Puerto Rican guitar (in its hard-shell case). He took them both on the
plane with him "no problem."
However, it seems that his experience must have been a complete fluke,
judging from what everyone else reports.
*GROAN*
M. Laird
From: "Paul Sherwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [HG] Flying NOW
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:40:02 +0100
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
