Klarinet Archive - Posting 000004.txt from 2007/05

From: "Keith Bowen" <bowenk@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] RE: klarinet Digest 2 May 2007 09:01:02 -0000 Issue 7242
Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 08:53:00 -0400


Exactly, it is these that are the difficulty. I was told the same by the
check-in agent at Thomson Air in Luton, but I quoted the regs, he consulted
his boss and it was OK. I was OK on bmibaby also.

Keith Bowen

>It is probably worth doing what others have suggested and getting a print
out of the regulations - I'm trying to talk to a low cost airline re a trip
later this summer (from the UK) where I need a bass and Eb (in a Wiseman
triple case) and am currently being told there is no way I will be allowed
them as carry on. I flew with a group last weekend within Europe, the
reduced size of carry-on luggage meant that all of the trumpets and the alto
saxophone were too big to carry-on. The bass clarinet had to go as hold
luggage on the outward flight but was allowed on when returning to the UK.

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