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RE: Air Travel with a Guitar
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Ricardo
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Joined: Dec. 14 2004
From: Washington DC
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RE: Air Travel with a Guitar (in reply to Mark2)
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OTOH, on a recent trip to Santa Barbara, it was a smaller plane and I had to check it. This is and has always been normal, however, the new issue if you didn’t read it from Stu, is whether or not they charged you $50 for that??? quote:
That's interesting. The last time I flew United (maybe 6-7 years ago?), they wouldn't even let me check it at the gate. I said I'd done it repeatedly with other airlines, and they were like, "We've never allowed that." And again, did they hit you with a $50 fee to check it at the gate??? That is new issue going on, where if it IS the case that is what airlines are doing now, it is no longer advice I will give to take it to the gate. Again, I have ALWAYS had to gate check guitars on various airlines at some point (about 20% of the time or less), pink tag COMPLIMENTARY (no fees involved), yet we are hearing stories now that airlines are squeezing out checked bag fees at the gate. THAT is what I am trying to establish. It is important because when I travel for gigs I get Per diam and performance fees etc, but I have never allocated bag check fees I didn’t need. This would be something I have to add to the contract when I fly to gigs if it is an actual “thing”. I notice some years ago pros traveling with NO GUITAR, and I have had to lend my guitars out at times which I always thought was lame, and only recently did the same myself (because my friend had a great guitar I wanted to try out and use anyway, not some stranger). It is to the point promoters contact me to lend my guitars to strangers and I think it is lame….unless this is what it is about. So it can be dealt with if it is in fact a new policy and we need to amend or roll in the costs (two directions is extra $100) to gig expenses.
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