Re: Time Sensitive: Your opinions needed ASAP
I've flown 6-8 times, domestically and to Mexico, with a backpack and A-style hard case, ALMOST never a question asked. The one time it was, the attendant saw the 3-raquet (padded + insulated) tennis bag and said "Go right ahead". The bag is technically 30" long but would crush down to the case's 29" if measured. I suspect (haven't looked it up) that some sports stuff gets the same privlidge that instruments are supposed to have.
Also never had to differentiate between which is the "carry-one" vs. the "personal item".
Mine was $40 or so 10 years ago, over $100 cheaper than a then-available Small Dog or Colorado Case equivalent. Heck, here's one now for $35:
https://www.midwestsports.com/head-e...CABEgJQrvD_BwE
Two warnings:
- While 3-raquet bags will hold a mandolin case, some zippers are too short (meaning the case is too thick) to let that case into the bag. Fortunately, a friendly local shop let me bring my case in and try them out.
- Current tennis bags have adopted some more angular shapes. They'll probably accept a mando case, but without trying, who knows?
On the good side, the shape of most bags would seem to hold a shaped F-style case just as well as an A.
I'd never bring an uncased instrument unless I considered it disposable. As in: "Better to play it and leave it there than not bring it at all." Hate to see something GOOD dissolve in the rainforest!
And yes, I have stuffed the backpack in the overhead while the technically-too-long case sat betwen my feet.
- Ed
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