Traveling the 'unfriendly skies'

[jacobg]

So, your response to a musician not being able to take an instrument onboard is "travel with a large professional orchestra"? That's not very helpful to the rest of us.

[Tom]

So, your response to a musician not being able to take an instrument onboard is "travel with a large professional orchestra"? That's not very helpful to the rest of us.

No, that's not it at all.

The original post referred to a blog posting by a professional trombone player in a large professional orchestra that was traveling with said large professional orchestra. I pointed out that he was traveling with the large professional orchestra and that his experience could have been different because of the way that I know large professional orchestras travel / do things - I went on to speak of my own experiences as someone responsible for facilitating the travel of a large professional orchestra for a living.

This entire thread was never really about individuals (or as you put it "the rest of us") traveling like the pros in large orchestras do because the fact of the matter is that you can't - but the subject of the initial post (and blog author/trombonist) could have.

Instead of having the orchestra facilitate flying his instrument around, he opted to try to carry it on and had some problems. He then decided to post (now removed) exaggerated claims and some flat-out misinformation all the while leaving out the whole other side of the story - which I pointed out because most people here don't have any clue how orchestras travel.

So, I was not offering travel advice to you or anyone else; my comments were centered around the original post which linked to the blog about (again) the professional trombonist in a large professional orchestra traveling with his trombone.



There are MANY other threads on this BBS about individuals flying with instruments. One just recently that probably is still on the front page from bloke. Those threads are geared towards individuals traveling. This one is not.

[bort]

MH370?

[Rick F]

Bloke's picture was from this story:

http://www.thestrad.com/cpt-latests/air ... uble-bass/