KimC, I took my guitar to Greece with me once. On the way out, they did ask what it was, and made me get it out of the case and had a look at it (it was only a soft case, so it's not like there was anywhere to stash stuff!) and it went in the hold after all that. On the way back, the Greeks just didn't care, it went on with me, and I could have had a dozen grenades in there for all they knew.

So the moral of the story is that if you want to hijack a plane, start in Greece. ;-)

Grab.