Emirates and Guitars
May 9, 2016, 4:19 pm
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Emirates and Guitars
Hey everyone, I'll be flying with Emirates soon and I was wondering what you guys' experiences are with flying with a guitar. Ive always taken my guitar with me as a carry on + a carry on suitcase and I've never had any issues, they just put it in the closet. However, this was done in 'from-US flights' (United Airlines).
Has anyone flown to DXB (Dubai) with a guitar as carry on with Emirates?
Or just flown with Emirates? The website says no instruments like guitars but then I know that self-experience is always different.
Thanks!
Has anyone flown to DXB (Dubai) with a guitar as carry on with Emirates?
Or just flown with Emirates? The website says no instruments like guitars but then I know that self-experience is always different.
Thanks!
May 10, 2016, 7:06 am
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I offer the following tentatively, for whatever you can make of it.
When I was checking in at SYD last week, another passenger in the Business/Elite line had a guitar in a hard case, plus a carry-on and a big suitcase. I remember wondering whether he was expecting to take both the carry-on bag and the guitar. I also wondered if he was in J, where there might be room for both, or in Y.
As I was heading out of the check-in area, I saw the guitar case inside a locked wire-grid cage on wheels, so it didn't go down the conveyor belt with the regular checked luggage, but it wasn't going as carry-on either.
YMMV, of course.
When I was checking in at SYD last week, another passenger in the Business/Elite line had a guitar in a hard case, plus a carry-on and a big suitcase. I remember wondering whether he was expecting to take both the carry-on bag and the guitar. I also wondered if he was in J, where there might be room for both, or in Y.
As I was heading out of the check-in area, I saw the guitar case inside a locked wire-grid cage on wheels, so it didn't go down the conveyor belt with the regular checked luggage, but it wasn't going as carry-on either.
YMMV, of course.
May 12, 2016, 7:27 pm
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May 13, 2016, 8:05 am
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Haha true he probably did!
Funny memory from that flight was that he couldn't figure out how to get through the curtain that separates F from the shower/bar area, being in 1K I was able to show him that the cutout was right in the middle!
Funny memory from that flight was that he couldn't figure out how to get through the curtain that separates F from the shower/bar area, being in 1K I was able to show him that the cutout was right in the middle!