<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by JHunter:
How is the space for oddly-shaped items? Mrs. JHunter has a musical instrument case that is a tube roughly 8" in diameter (no problem there) but 28" long, several inches beyond the length limit although the dimensional totals are within spec.
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I believe that musical instruments are exempted from size limitations (within reason) since I have seen a guitar on board an aircraft many times.