R: Re: Carrying instruments on airplanes - this is cool and veryrelevant!

[Massimo Liverani <mas.liv@libero.it>]

Incredible video! and incredible story Per! 
So...maybe this is one of the reason for that i'll not carry my guitar 
to S.C...but only my i-phone? ;-) 
Max 

>----Messaggio originale----
>Da: perboysen@gmail.com
>Data: 28/09/2010 20.12
>A: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
>Ogg: Re: Carrying instruments on airplanes - this is cool and very 
>relevant!
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>Your story really touched my heart. I'm glad you managed to get back
>again! I traveled from Scandinavia to USA in 2006 and had the British
>Airways' security officer in chief inspect my tenor sax flight case at
>London airport and write a paper to verify security check was ok and
>it should be taken care of well when checked in. So I checked it in.
>But at San Fransisco it never showed up. I asked around among the
>airport clerks and finally got informed that my sax from 1929 had
>"been tagged as suspicious luggage and transported to a secure area
>for termination - if not claimed by the owner within thirty minutes".
>I ran like hell towards the mentioned secure area and got there just
>five minutes before termination time. Phiew... Still have that tenor,
>but when I fly I bring other instruments.
>
>Greetings from Sweden
>
>Per Boysen
>www.boysen.se
>www.perboysen.com
>www.looproom.com internet music hub
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>On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 7:51 PM, chuspa <chuspacpu@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>  Even it's not exactly what's the topic about I have to say,...I had a 
>very 
unforgetable experience with continental airlines at NYC airport in 1999.
>>  I was flying from chile to england with a connection at NYC airport , 
because of the NYC airport rules at this time the flying companies that 
makes 
connection at NYC have to let the personal of the airport to recheck-in 
the 
baggage again, ( don't know if is still like this right now)
>>  I had 2 pieces of baggage , one was with my personal things and the 
>second 
one was a special case that I specially order to make for this trip and 
inside 
was a one piece washburn electric guitar, a handmade bass and synth 
korg....
>>    So I pickup my baggage and recheck-in again for continue to london.
>>    When I arrived to london, I went to pickup my baggage , the one 
>with my 
personal things arrived but the special case with instruments didn't 
....and 
never see again.
>>    So I claimed to continental airlines, sending letters, emails, 
>phone 
calls for a period of 3 months. I also send my customs declaration when I 
left 
chile with all the serial numbers of each instrument ( so if I wanna 
 come back 
to chile and didn't needed  to pay tax ) but continental airlines replied 
to me 
saying that this documents were not legal and finally they offer me 20 
dollars 
per kg; total 640 dollars.( according to 1 baggage missed, 32 kgs)
>>    With these money I was not able to buy one of the "missing pieces".
>>    I also have to say that this mad situation put me in a very bad 
>feeling 
way, so sad. everynight before sleep was a nightmare.
>>    Because I left my country chile with the idea of travel and make 
>music, 
I arrived to europe with empty hands, can you imagine?....It took me like 
1 
year to put myself ok. and slowly slowly buy again my instruments.
>>     Now it's around 12 years of this incident, I got new stuff ( not 
>the 
same one), I'm still living in europe , everything it's normal right now.
>>
>>      Yes, I know , why I didn't made an insurance before travelling?
>>         I never could imagine that something like this can happen 
>to me, 
because I never thought how can indiference can be an airline company with 
their customers.
>>      Sorry guys for these long history, even I made it short, but I 
>know 
how each one of us really loves and take care about his instruments, this 
feeling it's hard to explain because it's similar to the feeling that one 
have 
to a loved person, and it's unique.
>>  I hope the company airlines, in a nearly future, take in count that 
musicians need an special treatment with their stuff.
>>  fullpower
>> luis
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>> --- On Tue, 28/9/10, alessandro <alefisc@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> From: alessandro <alefisc@gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: Carrying instruments on airplanes - this is cool and very 
relevant!
>> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>> Received: Tuesday, 28 September, 2010, 11:56 AM
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>> Ehm...
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo
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>> 2010/9/27 richard sales <richard@glasswing.com>
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>> Nice tips, Bill!
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>> richard sales
>> www.glasswing.com
>> www.richardsales.com
>> www.hayleysales.com
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>> On Sep 26, 2010, at 10:25 AM, William Walker wrote:
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>> Oh and another thing, new company  USA made lots of choices.
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>> http://www.carbonfibercases.com/Guitar_cases.php
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