Re: Airline guitar abuse. It must stop!

On Sep 17, 7:02 pm, Tim McNamara <tim...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article
<5a29e1bf-3a48-4390-bb48-a638b963e...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
 Jim Soloway <j...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If you're going to fly a lot with a guitar, then have a guitar that's
travel friendly.  If you can adapt, then use a guitar with a bolt-on
neck and carry it in a quality, light weight poly-foam case.  If you
insist on traveling with an archtop, then carry it in a bullet proof
flight case and be prepared to pay a surcharge.  But whatever you do,
don't count on the airlines to either improve their baggage handling
or be more accommodating because it's probably never going to happen.

Airlines and cell phones are usually rated as the worst industries for
customer service.  It's so bad with cell phones that they have to bind
you to a two-year contract to keep your business.

To keep your business and to recoup the cost of the phone they sold
you as a loss-lead.

Airlines have become the equivalent of 1970's bus lines, no class,
herd mentality. I'm old enough to remember when people actually got
dressed up if they were flying somewhere :)


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