Hi TubeNet,
From your previous experiences, which airlines have been the least troublesome to fly with tubas?
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Which airline is the least unfriendly? (for tubas)
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Which airline is the least unfriendly? (for tubas)
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Re: Which airline is the least unfriendly? (for tubas)
Not much use for you internally in the states, but British Airways always look after me travelling with tubas. I flew with three today, and was not charged any excess for size, despite one being a Kaiser and another a 6/4!
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Re: Which airline is the least unfriendly? (for tubas)
Put faux fur on it and say it's your service animal.
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Re: Which airline is the least unfriendly? (for tubas)
Alaska
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Re: Which airline is the least unfriendly? (for tubas)
Hilarious. My wife says, yep, that's the sound she makes with the euph. (A non-musician, I'm teaching her to make noises on it as a COPD therapy.)bloke wrote:... Celephant and service Felephant...
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Re: Which airline is the least unfriendly? (for tubas)
Delta has had issues for years, United has a bad reputation, Southwest avoided paying for the damage they did to my tuba... The best airline would be to drive in your car, in my experience.
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Practicing results in increased atmospheric CO2 thus causing global warming.
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Re: Which airline is the least unfriendly? (for tubas)
Also no help for US domestic flying, but Lufthansa has to be sympathetic as well. They have their own employee orchestra of highly accomplished musicians.Wyvern wrote:Not much use for you internally in the states, but British Airways always look after me travelling with tubas. I flew with three today, and was not charged any excess for size, despite one being a Kaiser and another a 6/4!
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Miraphone 191 4-valve
1925 Conn 28J
Cerveny CEP 531-4M
Fox 880 "Sayen" (oops... that's an oboe)
1925 Conn 28J
Cerveny CEP 531-4M
Fox 880 "Sayen" (oops... that's an oboe)