It really depends very much where you´re flying from. When I left this week
from a german airport I was asked why I want to check in my suitcase as this
one would be suitable as a carry-on. For my flight back from London this
would have been absolutely impossible.
But there was another remarkable thing: I had bought an instrument which
didn´t fit in the suitcase and was too big for the new allowed dimesions for
handluggage as well. As I wanted to give the most possible protection I
linked the my trolley and the instrument case using brown sticky tape
leaving the handle of my trolley pulled out and fixed with tape as well. At
the check in I was informed that this can´t be checked in with the normal
luggage as this would be oversize. So I had to go to a seperate desk for
oversize and fragile items only.
This will of cause not mean that it will have been treated carefully all the
time but at least it shows how to make oversize luggage out of two pieces of
former carry-on luggage. Maybe this would be also an idea for a hg to be
transported: Link the (soft) case with something else (for example a
cardboard box - maybe larger than the hg to give some protection) and you
have oversize luggage. By the way: no extra costs for that - at least in my
case.
Christoph
----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Lindahl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2006 9:24 AM
Subject: Re: [HG] Flying NOW - another report
On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 04:11:50AM +0000, Reaping Crone wrote:
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."
This is because the restrictions are varying rapidly. Heathrow is now
allowing small carry-ons, but they are strictly checking the size. And
that size is too small for a HG or your colleague's guitar.
But even that is old info, I flew through last Tuesday...
-- greg
