Originally Posted by
blueman2
My point in this thread is that people should take some responsibility for themselves. The rules clearly say you cannot plan to bring a large item like this on board. You might get away with it, but you must plan for the situation where you do not. And that means having a case for the guitar that will stand up to normal airline handling.
Originally Posted by
Hadrian35
Sorry if there is some confusion but I'm more or less just laughing at this guy's shock over a common incident and his own failure to plan. My partner has a guitar that he's loved longer than me. He checks it and he bought a case for it with those rules in mind.
Regarding the overhead bin rules, sorry, them's the rules and I don't care how spottily they are enforced. If you don't follow them just because you are relying on lazy GA/FA's, you are a rude and inconsiderate traveler. End of story.
With your high degree of empathy, you guys would have made wonderful subjects in Zimbardo's study.
United has 88,000 employees, and as we all know, even many of them don't know the rules. United flew 145,000,000 passengers in 2012. How many of them read the entire set of rules? How many of them knew them by heart? I assume you guys have memorized the contents of your cars' owners manual too?
Fact is the "rules" we all know is what our experience is. Had you asked me, I would have told you I assumed that Guitars were allowed as carry on bags. I bet if you polled 100 non flying "experts" 98 of them would say they were permitted as carry on baggage.
expecting every one of UAs 145,000,000 passengers to protect themselves by having read UAs entire rules is just silly.
hobgoblin of little minds