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Re: Cabin baggage ban hits musicians
the situation is really depressing,i travel every year
to California and is turning into a nightmare,last
year i took my acoustic guitar with me
onboard,although they kept telling me i was at my own
risk so i took my chance but luckily it went through
ok.But now its over damn!
many thanks to the war pigs who travel in their own
fat jetplanes!
Luis
--- sonic steph <ml@dadaprod.org> wrote:
> A way avoid this stress is thinking about the
> ecologic impact of one of
> this music trip for the earth and the other species
> sharing this space
> with us.. Then you may think that playing around the
> world cause so much
> pollution that it's not worth doing this...
> You will have more time then for your family and
> local gigs..
> > horrible, horrible times.
> >
> > traveling for a musician was already a nightmare,
> and now it is worse.
> > i worry more about flying with the cello than i do
> about the
> > performance on the other end.
> >
> > as for the repeaters...i never put them in the
> hold. i always put them
> > in my carry-on with my laptop. i think it is more
> likely that i can
> > find a replacement cello than replacement
> repeaters!! (how weird is
> > that! the cello is about 20 times more valuable)
> >
> > maybe one outcome of the ban on cabin baggage will
> be that hold
> > baggage is treated better. in any other business
> such mistreatment of
> > property would not be considered acceptable. but
> now if people have no
> > choice but to check fragile and expensive items?
> the airlines
> > themselves recommend that you carry on anything
> valuable.
> >
> > i used to buy an extra seat for the cello, but
> after Sept 11,
> > sometimes i would be denied boarding by ignorant
> staff. i started
> > putting it in the hold inside a flight case and
> insisted on
> > gate-checking it. without fail, i would be yelled
> at by TSA during
> > screening. "you can't bring that through here". at
> one airport they
> > unpacked the cello and left it naked on a metal
> table (not letting me
> > anywhere near it) while crowds of people jostled
> past in the security
> > line. they wanted to run it this way through the
> xray machine. my
> > tearful entreaties had an effect and they ended up
> with one person
> > holding it upside down while 2 others searched
> inside with
> > flashlights. the endpin and bows were removed and
> i was told to check
> > them into my baggage. i replied they are too long
> to fit in my
> > suitcase, and a TSA person said "well you should
> of thought of that
> > before". that the cello was going in the hold and
> not the cabin made
> > not the slightest difference. if it wasn't so
> stressful it would be
> > comical.
> >
> > gate checking in that instance caused me to miss
> my flight, so now i
> > check it at the ticket desk. the flight case is
> very good, but being
> > so enormous, it must be hand inspected by the TSA
> (leaving their
> > little calling card inside). i always ask nicely
> if i can be present,
> > mostly to verifying that they repack if properly.
> if not repacked
> > exactly right, the cello might not survive the
> baggage handling. on a
> > recent flight the TSA closed the case, but never
> strapped in the cello
> > inside. amazingly, other than the soundpost
> falling out and the
> > bridge knocked out of place, it was fine. and if i
> have a connection
> > to make when coming from overseas (say london to
> philly to seattle).
> > because of the hand inspection, the cello never
> makes it to the
> > connecting flight. when possible, i always try to
> get to my
> > destination a day earlier, so that i have time to
> wait for the poor
> > cello to arrive, or get any repairs done.
> >
> > sometimes the stress is too much, and i think "i
> can't handle this any
> > more!!", but what is the alternative???
> >
> > i try to remind myself, "oh but thanks to all this
> inconvenience, i'm
> > safer now". but, on that journey where the
> inspection caused me to
> > miss my flight...i realized, while waiting for the
> next plane, that i
> > still had my LEATHERMAN in my purse.
> >
> > aargh.
> >
> > On Aug 12, 2006, at 5:59 AM, Costas Andreou wrote:
> >
> >> Hello everyone. Here is a BBC article about
> musicians' problems
> >> because of
> >> the new cabin baggage ban on planes.
> >>
>
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4784225.stm?ls
> >>
> >> Costas Andreou
> >>
> >> http://www.costasandreou.com
> >> contact@costasandreou.com
> >>
> >
> >
> >
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