Re: Guitars and Airplanes

[Aaron Rittmaster <ajritz...>]

One other suggestion with which I have had good luck:
Make friends with the flight attendants.  Get to your gate early and strike up 
a conversation with the attendant who's getting ready to staff your flight.  
Almost every plane, except for the smallest commuters, have a special baggage 
compartment reserved for flight attendants.  There is also usually plenty of 
room in there for your guitar (it's usually the equivalent of one of those 
first-class hanging closets).  Anyway, mention to the flight attendant how 
important your guitar is to you and how you're really afraid to check it - 
often they'll offer to let you use "their" storage on the plane!  It's worked 
for me more than once.
:-)Aaron Rittmaster
(Finally able to read Hanashir by upgrading to a pre-release version of MSIE 
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