“United Breaks Guitars”
My own experience with flying + guitars:
- Baby Taylors = Great travel companions. Martin Drednought in a hard case, not so much.
- Air Malawi/Virgin Atlantic will lose your guitar and spend days arguing who’s responsible before telling you it’s either somewhere in Kenya or London Heathrow. They’ll then blame you for being in Hawaii and unable to pick it up (even though the guitar is nowhere in the United States) before sending it to Chicago O’Hare even though you live in New Jersey. I have never feared for my Martin’s life so much. It was safer in Malawi when I had it teathered to the side of a 15-seat minibus filled with 22 people for 180km.
- As a dear friend with an electric/acoustic Ovation found out the hard way, ALWAYS unwind your strings before flying. Otherwise, it’s likely your neck will snap D:
