Originally Posted by
TRAVELSIG
I have hand-carried some artwork in poster tubes/similar however never in the dimension of 1m in length. I have a tube I use for artwork which is about 0.5m in length and it works very well and I have never been stopped or asked about it when flying in business- I don't know about 1m as I am not sure it would fit in the overhead bins as they have dividers in them at certain points?
Scientific posters would come into my mind first, but yes art is another possibility.
I have carried ~1m tubes many many times to almost all continents with a lot of airlines, it was never a problem. And it always fit into the overhead bins (sometimes slanted).
OT:
Once entering the USA the security people asked to open the tube for inspection because xraying it was apperently not enough. And a friend of mine even had to explain his scientific thesis to the inspectors to proove that this is really just a harmless plastic tube. Was quite funny
