Originally Posted by
aztimm
Do we know where the violinists were in the boarding order?
I'm struggling to see how fitting a violin in the overhead is different from any other bag. If you're boarding toward the end and the bins are full, what can be done? Should a passenger who already boarded be forced to gate check their bag?
Appears to me that you may have skimmed over the linked articles, which appear to make their boarding order irrelevant.
The initial issue was that an employee handed them a slip of paper that said that violins were prohibited in the cabin:
In a phone interview on Monday night, Kendall said that incident began when he and De Pue were changing planes in Charlotte, headed for Arkansas. As they climbed the stairway to the US Airways Express commuter jet, a flight attendant reportedly handed them a blue slip stating that the FAA prohibits musical instruments on the plane, "which was stunning because we're frequent fliers," he said. "We had never heard of this."
http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/violini...m-bach-tarmac/
Originally Posted by
Often1
Without more facts, what is the point of simply posting links to an article?
And to aztimm's question, what does OP propose should have been done in this instance?
The links contained the pertinent facts. Dunno if they're true, but violins are not prohibited items, contrary to the slip of paper allegedly handed to the musicians by the employee.
The articles contain the usual song and dance from spokesholes about how the employees were
trying to follow policy and trying to do the right thing.