New twist on carry on wars - musical instruments
Jan 6, 2015, 12:07 pm
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New twist on carry on wars - musical instruments
US DOT just issued "clarifications" on carry on for musical instruments. This makes a difference to me because guitars are one of the things addressed.
Bottom line is that if there is room in overheard storage, the airline cannot prohibit you from carrying a guitar on board. In addition (and this is where it gets potentially problematic) if someone boards early with a guitar and the guitar takes up the overhead space for 2 or 3 rows, the FA can *not* force you to take it out if the bins get full and other passengers can't find space. So basically an early boarder can take a guitar, put it in and take up space for several other passengers, and the later boarders lose.
http://www.guitarworld.com/acoustic-...ing-air-travel
http://www.dot.gov/sites/dot.gov/fil...nstruments.pdf
Bottom line is that if there is room in overheard storage, the airline cannot prohibit you from carrying a guitar on board. In addition (and this is where it gets potentially problematic) if someone boards early with a guitar and the guitar takes up the overhead space for 2 or 3 rows, the FA can *not* force you to take it out if the bins get full and other passengers can't find space. So basically an early boarder can take a guitar, put it in and take up space for several other passengers, and the later boarders lose.
http://www.guitarworld.com/acoustic-...ing-air-travel
http://www.dot.gov/sites/dot.gov/fil...nstruments.pdf
Jan 6, 2015, 1:52 pm
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I would not want some guys carryon to be pushing my 4000+ dollar guitar or bass, while I find travelling with trumpets to be completely non-stressfull when it is the case to take a guitar or a bass I would normally book a business class seat for the trip as that would almost certainly take away a lot of the stress involved..........gone are the days I travelled with my instruments though =(
Jan 6, 2015, 2:18 pm
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Well that's a plucky policy 
Seriously though, DOT shows a real bias in favour of early-boarding guitar-toting passengers while Air Canada demands violas are checked in.
http://http://www.flyertalk.com/foru...ke-action.html
Seriously though, DOT shows a real bias in favour of early-boarding guitar-toting passengers while Air Canada demands violas are checked in.
http://http://www.flyertalk.com/foru...ke-action.html
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