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Thread #63362 Message #1028123
Posted By: Midchuck
02-Oct-03 - 01:49 PM
Thread Name: Guitars on flights
Subject: RE: Guitars in planes
You have four options:
1) Buy a Calton case, or maybe a Pegasus. (Those cost a good deal more, new, than the present value of your old Yamaha.)
2) Travel with a guitar that you consider expendable, in a normal hard case, packing it carefully with a lot of padding inside the case, especially around the headstock.
3) Don't travel by air.
4) Don't travel with a guitar.
Sorry I'm not more help. But yes, airline luggage handlers go into a blind rage at the sight of a guitar case. I don't know why. Maybe a guitar player bit them at some point.
Peter.