When Airlines Attack: Tales of Destroyed, Lost and (Occasionally) Found Instruments

This is painful! I don't think I'd ever ever check in my guitar again after reading this. Neither would the fellows over at myrockbook.com. o_0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8SVVKEb8Tkc

you should see what the airlines do to wheelchairs

back in the 80's..I opened my bass case to discover the bridge broken and missing parts..WTF?...a stop at Guitar Center Hollywood fixed it on the way to the gig from the plane....now I buy a seat for my ax...

As an Airline Employee I will never check anything valuable. NEVER put anything in your checked baggage that you DO NOT want to lose. You now have Baggage Handlers and the TSA stealing items from baggage. I try not to have to check my baggage, I now carry a man bag. PLEASE include where YOU ARE GOING an address and phone number taped INSIDE the luggage, and we COLLECT the leather attached tags to the luggage. Use stick-on name and phone number labels. I painted a bright yellow line on my luggage so I can spot it right away, they made at least 132,123 of the same luggage you own. People are stealing luggage from the airports. claiming it is theirs. .mmm

WTF !!! I`m looking for the Ray Davies story... GD I`m Fed Up With AOL !!

With homeland security so good that they could find and track my grandmother nail file, I'm surprised that they could lose something so large as a musical instrument.
Wait a minute! You don't think that maybe their stealing this stuff?

TV set on top of my surfboard, they aren too swift ( more damage than my surfing a rocky coast for 3 months). Remember the SAVAGE Baggage Handlers commercial showing them as Gorrillas?

The "lost" problems for frequent fllyers is not restricted to airlines. In November 2011, I lost an $800. money clip at the TSA inspection point at American Airlines JFK. Attempts to reach some responsible party were impossible. NYPD told me "those people steal from passengers every day."

Lets put it this way. If your guitar is a $50,000 taylor or Martin or a $15,000 57 Fender Strat or a 59 Les Paul Gibson, the airlines are still to be held responsible for your instrument.