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Author: Neil
Date: 2013-12-10 23:01
It's only fair. Sometimes they're on instruments in the cockpit.
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Author: William
Date: 2013-12-11 14:41
Even prior to this law being passed, I had not ever had any objections to carrying my set of clarinets on board. They have been frequently screened for dangerous chemicals or bomb material, but have always eventually allowed to board with me.
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2013-12-11 15:26
However, put your reed knife, Exacto blades and even pointy miniature screwdrivers in your checked baggage.
Ken Shaw
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Author: BflatNH
Date: 2013-12-11 19:19
If I read it correctly,
“shall permit a passenger to carry a…musical instrument in the aircraft cabin, without charging the passenger a fee in addition to any standard fee that carrier may require for comparable carry-on baggage, if..."
means if you have your personal bag, and an overhead sized bag, you still have to pay for for the instrument as an addition carry-on (if they charge for such things), but they can't charge you a further fee on top of that.
As to the 'up to guitar' size limit, where is that line drawn for clarinets? Bass OK but straight contras not?
And as far as being 'encouraged to show up and board their flights early to ensure they find storage space for their instruments', did not buy me much advantage as most boarding proceedures seem unmoved by early arrival.
Perhaps we can lobby to come on after the infants in strollers.
PS I wonder if challenged by TSA, what should I play on my Bass?
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2013-12-11 20:48
I seem to recall the AFM (American Federation of Musician) having a good explanation of the instrument travel policy on their website somewhere. I'm no longer a member so can't say for sure, but certainly AFM members would need to be very familiar with what is and isn't allowed onboard, so that could be a good place to look for guidance.
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2013-12-12 12:49
Normally I don't travel with an instrument (I'm an amateur), but I can't resist flea markets and junk shops wherever I go and, you know how it is -- now and then a dirty old stray instrument follows me home. That can prove awkward with a wooden clarinet that I don't want to send from the over-heated airport into the freezing baggage hold, because a couple of times, the TSA has asked me to play the clarinet, to prove it's really a clarinet. Yeah, that's laughable, but I suppose some nut could stuff contraband in a clarinet or rig it to blow up something besides an audience's eardrums.
Anyhow, I'm not going to argue with the TSA about it. Since the TSA people don't care how well the clarinet plays, I travel with a minimalist ditty-bag in my checked luggage in order to set up a flea market honker just enough to get some noise out of it: double-sided Velcro as a ligature for any size of clarinet or sax, a selection of different sizes of old reeds (playable but no longer in good enough shape for practicing) and a bare minimum of repair goods that won't scare the baggage inspectors (small Swiss Army multi-knife, tape to seal or replace broken-up corks, some of the most common sizes of pads and screws, double-sided tape for temporary pad-setting). Everything I do the night before the flight is easily reversible when I get home. Of course the ditty bag with the knife and so forth goes back in the checked luggage for the flight.
Lelia
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2013-12-12 12:57
Every airport has boxes -- dumpsters -- full of Swiss Army Knives confiscated from passengers. It's not as bad as at the beginning, when they wouldn't permit fingernail clippers, but it's still irrational.
Ken Shaw
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