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| Author: | Zero [ Wed Feb 15, 2012 12:12 am ] |
| Post subject: | Advice for flying with a guitar |
Insurance? Flight case? I've personally never had to take a guitar on a flight so any experience and or advice would be helpful I've seen those assholes throw luggage around so I'm spooked. |
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| Author: | JxDx [ Wed Feb 15, 2012 3:32 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Advice for flying with a guitar |
Zero wrote: Insurance? Flight case? I've personally never had to take a guitar on a flight so any experience and or advice would be helpful I've seen those assholes throw luggage around so I'm spooked. I bought a pretty indestructible flight case but even still I would recommend insurance. Your best bet is to soft-case it and carry it on....works about 80% of time. |
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| Author: | MILLION MAN [ Wed Mar 14, 2012 4:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Advice for flying with a guitar |
But then 20% of the time they're making you check an instrument in a soft case. |
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| Author: | RacerX [ Thu Mar 15, 2012 3:42 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Advice for flying with a guitar |
Best advice: Don't fly Gibsons or any guitar with a pitched headstock. |
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| Author: | 10string [ Mon Apr 02, 2012 4:10 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Advice for flying with a guitar |
sorry, just now saw the post. for future reference I found that Southwest Airlines to be quite carry-on guitar friendly whether it is in a gig bag or ohsc. I never had an ATA case but if you got that it will be fine in the hold, thus the "ATA" grade of case. I have shipped heads in an ATA case with no prob. do not check a guitar in a gig bag. ever. dont gamble. |
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| Author: | Danny G [ Sat Apr 07, 2012 2:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Advice for flying with a guitar |
Always have your gear insured. I recommend MusicPro. 1. Detune the strings. 2. Have your name/contact info painted/inscribed on the case somewhere. Those tags can and will fall off. 3. The only time I've ever gate-checked a case, they lost it. Also learned about advice #2 cause the only reason I got it back was the single Eric Tessmer Band sticker on the case. They tracked him down online (I was on a tour with another band). Had the case been covered in stickers, I never would have seen it again. Also when gate-checking, they confiscated my $25 Leatherman multi-tool. I was planning on leaving it with my luggage, but the lady at the gate insisted I wouldn't have any problems. Boy was she wrong. |
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| Author: | Neighbor664 [ Tue Apr 10, 2012 9:18 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Advice for flying with a guitar |
Most guitars are not that aerodynamic, Flying V don't fly as well as the name implies. My advice....an air plane is still a better way to fly unless copious amounts of drugs are involved. |
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| Author: | Frater Pietro [ Thu Jun 28, 2012 6:19 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Advice for flying with a guitar |
Neighbor664 wrote: Most guitars are not that aerodynamic, Flying V don't fly as well as the name implies. My advice....an air plane is still a better way to fly unless copious amounts of drugs are involved. Ditto. You can still fly without a guitar  
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